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The Smart Device for Healthcare Service:
Iris diagnosis application
David Habsara Hareva, Samuel Lukas, Natanael Oktavian Suharta
Informatics, Computer Sciences, Universitas Pelita Harapan
Tangerang, Indonesia
dhareva@yahoo.com
Abstract— We have developed an iridology application for
predicting a person health through analysis of iris image.
Commonly for commercial purpose, it used Desktop-PC, but we
embedded it on Android-based Smartphone. The objective of this
research is to find out whether healthcare application that
providing direct diagnosis from real-time capturing image can be
carried out through mobile phone in general. For that purpose,
we developed other version of application that run on windows
mobile and windows operating system. The algorithm and
structure of the application is made as closely as possible with a
previous application. Those applications have been tested on
different environment, such as operating system, programming
language, and mobile device. The device tested with regard to
product maker, processor speed, screen size, storage size, and
image retrieval using built-in camera. Although the results can be
predicted that the used device with high specifications will be
faster to process image analysis, better to obtain images, clearly
in displaying images, however finding out the low limit of
requirement for running the application is essential. It is found
using low camera specification to take the image of iris is not
recommended. Additional macro lens causes difficulty when
taking a picture. Processing of iris image to predict health
condition could be handled by 1 GHz processor, 512 internal
memories, and 3.5 inches screen size, even it used low-end
product.
Keywords— Artificial Neural Network, Iridology, Canny Edge
Detection, Automatic Disease Detection, Smart device
I. INTRODUCTION
Development of integrated technologies encompasses
information, electronics, communications, and mobile enabling
healthcare applications used by all levels of society, from the
top to the bottom layer [1]. Access to healthcare providers are
become easier, so that everyone who wishes to live a healthy
lifestyle can easily reach it without has to depend on the
hospital or medical doctor. We have made a prior Iridology
application to diagnose a person's health through analysis of
iris image. The purpose of the application is to predict the
presence of organ disease, including heart, lung, spleen, and
liver. Capturing iris images, analyzing iris image, and
predicting a health condition of human organs are major steps
of developed application. To analyze obtained iris image is
using Canny Edge Detection, the output is detected iris area.
This iris area is extracted by Future Texture Analysis, and then
it used by Artificial Neural Networks (ANN) to predict organ
condition. This one is an example of healthcare application that
using a mobile technology in the form smart device as
represent of Smartphone and tablet-PC. It is expected used by
public communities by the use of relatively inexpensive tool
that comply with their purchase capabilities. They will have
benefits when it can predict their health condition quickly so
early disease prevention and further medical examination can
be done by their medical doctor immediately.
At this year's, Smartphone sales is ranged 224.9 million, up
46.42% from last year. This shows a significant increase for
Smartphone users. Both are those users who a new to
Smartphone or replace with the latest Smartphone. Table 1 (a)
describes five vendors with the largest percentage of sales in
the second quarter (Q2) of this year is the Samsung (31.70%),
Apple (14.40%), LG (5.07%), Lenovo (4.71%), ZTE (4.27%),
and other (40.11%). Used mobile operating system controlled
by Android at 79.01% up 14.76% from the same quarter last
year, followed by a 14.13% iOS, and Microsoft 3.29%, Table 1
(b). This fact is the reason why we first build Iridology
applications using the Android based.
TABLE I. SALES AND MARKET SHARE 2012 AND 2013
http://www.netmarketshare.com
Q2, 2012 Q2, 2013
Samsung 45.6 71.3
Apple 28.9 31.8
LG 5.8 11.4
Lenovo 4.3 10.6
ZTE 6.3 9.6
Others 62.7 90.2
Total 153.6 224.9
millions
Brands
(a) Smartphones vendor
Q2, 2012 Q2, 2013
Android 98.6 177.8
iOS 28.9 31.8
Microsoft 4 7.4
Blacberry 7.9 6.1
Bada 4.2 0.83
Symbian 9 0.63
Others 0.86 0.47
Total 153.46 225.03
millions
OS
(b) Smartphone OS
OS Percentage
Windows 91.56%
Mac OS 7.19%
Linux 1.25%
Others 0.00%
Total 100.00%
(c) Desktop OS
Currently, we build other version of application that run on
windows mobile and windows operating system. The reason is
more than 90% of desktop users using windows as its operating
system (Table I (c)). Although users of windows mobile are
still relative small compared to Android or iOS, however the
number of windows users on desktop is superior to others. This
information may indicate that user of windows mobile increase.
In the present study, we take into consideration the
operating system and the device used to run the Iridology
application. Types of smart devices vary greatly, not only the
operating system, but also hardware, shape, internal camera,
touch screen, screen size, and battery life. Our consideration is
to find out what the most important feature in running the
Iridology application. We hope this research will give basic