The Autism & Beyond app analyzes children’s emotions. Duke University and Duke Medicine use the iPhone’s camera to capture a child’s reaction to videos.

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The Oregon Health & Science University’s Melanoma app tracks moles over time. Participants send photos to health professionals and researchers, who hope to develop an algorithm to screen for melanoma.

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The Asthma Health app helps participants manage their symptoms. Created by the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, Weill Cornell Medical College and LifeMap, the app collects air quality data and provides medication reminders.

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Patients with type 2 diabetes can record and track their exercise and diet information with GlucoSuccess. Developed by Massachusetts General Hospital, the app compares how various activities affect blood glucose levels.

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The Share the Journey app aims to uncover the long-term effects of chemotherapy as breast cancer treatment. The app from Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, UCLA’s Jonathan and Karin Fielding School of Public Health, Penn Medicine and Sage Bionetworks gathers data about energy levels, cognitive abilities and mood.

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The MyHeart Counts app assesses a patient’s risk for cardiovascular disease. Stanford Medicine and the University of Oxford will use the lifestyle and activity data to better understand what keeps hearts healthy.