DiaperID is a digital screening method for the early detection of cholestatic liver diseases such as biliary atresia. Parents can use a smartphone app to examine the stool color of their newborns themselves. The stool color analysis, based on artificial intelligence, is carried out server-based and detects the discolored stools typical of cholestatic liver diseases with high accuracy.
DiaperID can currently only be used by parents as part of a field study at the Charité newborn clinics. We would like to incorporate the findings from the study into future versions. We plan to make DiaperID available throughout Germany, including a version for pediatricians.
If a child’s stool color is rated as 'abnormal' by the study team, the parents are asked to see a pediatrician as soon as possible (within 24 hours) for further diagnostics.
All stool photos taken by parents are stored locally in the app and can be shown together with the analysis result at any time.
We follow the current recommendations of the German Society for Pediatric Gastroenterology (GPGE), which you can find here.
If you are located nearby the Berlin area, you can send children with suspected neonatal cholestasis to the Charité pediatric emergency room for further evaluation at any time. You can find the address and contact details here.
If Berlin is not within reach, you can also find the nearest centers on the GPGE website.