Consumer Technologies for Personalized Health: Feasibility of Five‐Compartment Body Composition Self‐Assessment Using Mobile Devices
Authors' conclusion
Properly calibrated smartphones and smartwatches can yield multicompartment body composition estimates that closely match laboratory standards and support precise, low-cost monitoring in remote and resource-limited settings.
Study context
- Population
- Adults
- Participants
- 30 adults
- Comparison
- Consumer-device five-compartment model (smartphone 3D optical imaging + smartwatch bioimpedance) vs laboratory-derived five-compartment model
- Outcome
- Agreement of fat-free mass and fat mass estimates with laboratory-derived five-compartment model, after calibration
Methodological detailsfive-compartment model, calibration against laboratory reference methods
- Five-compartment model
- Calibration against laboratory reference methods
Performance
As reported in the abstract
r2
> 0.96
RMSE
2.10 kg
Further findings
Smartphone body volume vs laboratory measure
- r2
- 0.97
- RMSE
- 2.65 L
- Required offset corrections to remove biases
Smartwatch total body water vs laboratory measure
- r2
- 0.98
- RMSE
- 1.54 L
- Required offset corrections to remove biases
Original publication
Consumer Technologies for Personalized Health: Feasibility of Five‐Compartment Body Composition Self‐Assessment Using Mobile Devices. Obesity (Silver Spring). Published 14 May 2026. doi:10.
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