⚠️ This is not medical advice. This is a middle school student project. It can assist you in checking your throat, but for any emergency or health concern, please see a doctor or nurse.

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Throat Screening Awareness Tool

A student-built experiment: can an image model notice signs of throat inflammation in a photo? It reports one thing only — whether a throat looks inflamed. It does not identify a cause or a disease.

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Choose a throat photo

Use whichever you prefer — you only need one. Your photo is analyzed in memory and never saved to disk.

📸 How to take a good photo

These are photography tips for getting a clearer picture — not health instructions.

  • Ask someone else to take it if you can. It is much easier for another person to hold the camera steady and actually see the back of your throat than it is to do it yourself.
  • Find bright light. Face a window or a lamp so the light shines into your mouth, not behind your head.
  • Open wide and say “aaah.” This lifts the back of the mouth out of the way.
  • Hold your tongue down gently with a clean spoon or popsicle stick so the back of the throat shows. Don’t push too far back — stop if you feel like gagging.
  • Frame the right area. Try to get the tonsils (the sides), the back wall of the throat, and the uvula (the dangly bit) in the picture.
  • Show the whole throat. The back of the throat needs to be fully visible in the photo for the app to have anything to look at. If your tongue, lips, or a shadow are covering it, the app will ask you to take another picture.
  • Hold steady and let it focus. A blurry photo is the most common reason a picture is hard to read.
A clear throat photo: mouth open wide, bright light, the back of the throat and both tonsils fully visible.
What a good photo looks like. Mouth open wide, bright even light, tongue out of the way, and the whole back of the throat visible — both tonsils and the uvula in frame, nothing in shadow. Yours does not need to be this perfect. Photo from the pharyngitis dataset by TaeKeun Yoo (2020), doi.org/10.17632/8ynyhnj2kz.1, used under CC BY 4.0. This is the same dataset the model was trained on.

👨‍👩‍👧 Ask an adult for help if you are taking this photo for a child.