Abstract: A point-of-care system with a diagnostic tool and a base station with a display and in communication with the diagnostic tool is described. Used in diagnosing health conditions for a tissue under analysis, the diagnostic tool includes a handle and a head portion. The head portion includes a speculum and optical spectroscopy (OS) data acquisition components positioned within the head portion. The OS data acquisition components are configure to (i) emit light toward the tissue under analysis, (ii) receive light reflected at least in part from the tissue under analysis based on the emitted light, and (iii) determine reflectance spectra associated with the received light. Either the diagnostic tool or a base station includes analytic components configured to (i) generate diagnostic metrics including characteristics of the reflectance spectra and (ii) compare these characteristics to data associated with characteristics of known reflectance spectra associated healthy and/or unhealthy tissue of patients.

Abstract: Systems and methods for use in detecting health condition of a physiological cavity or passageway are disclosed herein. In one example, the system may include one or more illuminators configured to illuminate a target area with light at discrete wavelengths. The system may additionally include detectors that are configured to receive a reflectance spectrum based on light emitted at discrete wavelengths from tissue and tissue constituents associated with the target area under analysis. Communicatively coupled to the one or more detectors, the processing unit is configured to analyse data associated with the reflectance spectra to produce one or more output values that identify the health condition.