Authors:
A. R. Silva
1
;
P. Gomes
2
;
D. Pereira
3
;
S. Guimarães
4
and
A. Castro
5
Affiliations:
1
Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto, Portugal
;
2
Universidade do Porto, Portugal
;
3
Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade do Porto and Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal
;
4
Hospital de Braga, Portugal
;
5
Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto, Portugal
Keyword(s):
Eye Pathologies, Mobile Application, Protocol, Red Reflex.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Biomedical Engineering
;
Distributed and Mobile Software Systems
;
Evaluation and Use of Healthcare IT
;
Health Engineering and Technology Applications
;
Health Information Systems
;
Mobile Technologies
;
Mobile Technologies for Healthcare Applications
;
Neural Rehabilitation
;
Neurotechnology, Electronics and Informatics
;
Software Engineering
Abstract:
Advances in technology make mobile phones very attractive to everyone, specially smartphones, with a large number of applications. In this paper we describe the necessary features of a mobile application for eye signs screening, describing some of the ocular pathologies that can be detected with a photograph using a smartphone, and the data collection protocol necessary to obtain this data and later process it. A first version of the developed application and some results are also presented. This application is simple to use, since the main target are the parents, who can use it at home as a tool to trace the visual health of their children, given that an ophthalmologist follow-up is scarce or nonexistent in many places.