Title
System for the Early Detection of Retinoblastoma
Date Issued
01 November 2019
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
conference paper
Publisher(s)
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Abstract
Retinoblastoma is a malignant cancerous tumor that arises in the retina. This type of intraocular cancer occurs in 94.1% in children under 5 years of age and with an incidence of 1 in every 16,000-18,000 births. Given this problematic situation, the present research proposes the development of a system for the detection of retinoblastoma composed of an app and an algorithm of image processing, to identify the presence of leukocoria in the iris that is shown as a white pupil in flash photos. The system of the early detection of retinoblastoma was designed and implemented, afterwards was tested with a control group (20) and a case group (15). The total sample (35) was composed of members between 6 months and 45 years old, where 25.71% are female and the remaining 74.29% are male. The 92% of the total sample indicates the correct functioning of the Retino App mobile application. Besides, the system's algorithm has correctly identified the 93.33% of the cases and the 95% of the controls.
Volume
2019-November
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Ciencias médicas, Ciencias de la salud
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85084960293
ISBN of the container
9781728108834
Conference
2019 IEEE 39th Central America and Panama Convention, CONCAPAN 2019
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