Mobile-based Risk Assessment of Diabetic Retinopathy using a Smartphone and Adapted Ophtalmoscope

Simão Felgueiras, João Costa, João Gonçalves, Filipe Soares

2018

Abstract

The large prevalence of diabetes in the global population is associated with an increasing number of Diabetic Retinopathy cases. This disease is associated with a progressive risk of blindness, due to physiological changes that affect the retina. Since most of the progression is asymptomatic and late stage damage is often irreversible, there is a large incentive to implement effective methodologies that allow large scale screening of the diabetic population. In this work, a research study of a mobile approach for the assessment of Diabetic Retinopathy was conducted, by analyzing 80 patients already being followed for ophthalmological care. A smartphone-based fundus imaging system was used to acquire images of the retina during the normal clinical workflow in a Central Hospital in Portugal. Relevant images were automatically analyzed by a Decision Support System (DSS) based on computer vision methods. The results were obtained for ground-truth correlation as well as time impact of this novel system. Our conclusions support that the DSS is highly sensitive in detecting pathological information on images, after a dedicated quality image filtering, and the acquisition procedure has minimal adverse impact in the clinical setting.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Felgueiras S., Costa J., Gonçalves J. and Soares F. (2018). Mobile-based Risk Assessment of Diabetic Retinopathy using a Smartphone and Adapted Ophtalmoscope. In Proceedings of the 11th International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies (BIOSTEC 2018) - Volume 5: HEALTHINF; ISBN 978-989-758-281-3, SciTePress, pages 168-175. DOI: 10.5220/0006599701680175

in Bibtex Style

@conference{healthinf18,
author={Simão Felgueiras and João Costa and João Gonçalves and Filipe Soares},
title={Mobile-based Risk Assessment of Diabetic Retinopathy using a Smartphone and Adapted Ophtalmoscope},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 11th International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies (BIOSTEC 2018) - Volume 5: HEALTHINF},
year={2018},
pages={168-175},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0006599701680175},
isbn={978-989-758-281-3},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 11th International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies (BIOSTEC 2018) - Volume 5: HEALTHINF
TI - Mobile-based Risk Assessment of Diabetic Retinopathy using a Smartphone and Adapted Ophtalmoscope
SN - 978-989-758-281-3
AU - Felgueiras S.
AU - Costa J.
AU - Gonçalves J.
AU - Soares F.
PY - 2018
SP - 168
EP - 175
DO - 10.5220/0006599701680175
PB - SciTePress