About the Authors

Stephanie Knowlton

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, 06269, United States of America

Chu Hsiang Yu

Affiliation Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, 06269, United States of America

Nupur Jain

Affiliation Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, 06269, United States of America

Ionita Calin Ghiran

Contributed equally to this work with: Ionita Calin Ghiran, Savas Tasoglu

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, 02115, United States of America

Savas Tasoglu

Contributed equally to this work with: Ionita Calin Ghiran, Savas Tasoglu

savas@engr.uconn.edu

Affiliations Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, 06269, United States of America, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, 06269, United States of America

Competing Interests

ST and SK have filed a provisional patent pending related to this technology. Patent number 62133031, titled "Mobile Device-Based System For Medical And Industrial Analyses" was filed on March 13, 2015. This does not alter the authors' adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ST ICG SK. Performed the experiments: SK CHY NJ. Analyzed the data: SK CHY NJ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: ICG. Wrote the paper: ST SK NJ.