MULISA: An mHealth and optical technique integrated platform for stroke screening and cerebral blood flow monitoring in low-resource settings
Year: 2026
Type: software-paper
Abstract: Stroke screening and assessment remain critical challenges, particularly for pediatric patients with sickle cell disease in low-resource settings where access to specialized infrastructure and trained personnel is limited. This paper presents MULISA, an integrated mHealth software platform designed to support stroke screening workflows by managing and visualizing cerebral blood flow related measurements. MULISA mobile software is designed to show real-time and longitudinal cerebral blood flow (CBF) trends and reviews through dashboards, support modular clinical workflows including patient management, scheduling, embedded educational resources and offline-first data capture with secure synchronization. This solution is designed to ingest cerebral blood flow (CBF) indices produced by a speckle contrast optical spectroscopy (SCOS) based measurement system. The app stores and displays these CBF values together with other health data that clinicians manually enter. This platform supports healthcare workflows by enabling structured visualization and longitudinal review of physiological measurement data within an accessible, device-agnostic mHealth environment.
Source: SoftwareX
Institution: Kennesaw State University
Language: English
Subfield: General Health Professions
Field: Health Professions
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: gold
Estimated APC paid: $1,200
OpenAlex ID: W7135013776