TestGraphia, a Software System for the Early Diagnosis of Dysgraphia

Dimauro, Giovanni; Bevilacqua, Vitoantonio; Colizzi, Lucio; Pierro, Davide Di

doi:10.1109/access.2020.2968367

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“…The technology-assisted diagnosis is increasing in the last years versus the traditional one, due to its higher reliability and unbiased results. In the last years, speech and image analysis and computer vision also powered by deep learning and its ability to rapidly extract the required information from digital images or videos allowed the development of interesting medical applications and diagnostic tools to support specialists [27][28][29][30][31][32][33][34].…”

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Semantic Segmentation of Conjunctiva Region for Non-Invasive Anemia Detection Applications

Kasiviswanathan¹,

Bai²,

Simone

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Electronics

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Technology is changing the future of healthcare, technology-supported non-invasive medical procedures are more preferable in the medical diagnosis. Anemia is one of the widespread diseases affecting the wellbeing of individuals around the world especially childbearing age women and children and addressing this issue with the advanced technology will reduce the prevalence in large numbers. The objective of this work is to perform segmentation of the conjunctiva region for non-invasive anemia detection applications using deep learning. The proposed U-Net Based Conjunctiva Segmentation Model (UNBCSM) uses fine-tuned U-Net architecture for effective semantic segmentation of conjunctiva from the digital eye images captured by consumer-grade cameras in an uncontrolled environment. The ground truth for this supervised learning was given as Pascal masks obtained by manual selection of conjunctiva pixels. Image augmentation and pre-processing was performed to increase the data size and the performance of the model. UNBCSM showed good segmentation results and exhibited a comparable value of Intersection over Union (IoU) score between the ground truth and the segmented mask of 96% and 85.7% for training and validation, respectively.

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Semantic Segmentation of Conjunctiva Region for Non-Invasive Anemia Detection Applications

Kasiviswanathan¹,

Bai²,

Simone

et al. 2020

Electronics

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“…Like other diagnostic-clinical and analytical-laboratory medical disciplines that begin to make extensive use of the image, sound or signal analysis, machine and deep learning techniques [22][23][24][25][26][27], it is worthwhile to invest in research and development of technologies such as those presented in this paper, with the dual purpose of significantly reducing the costs borne by the national health systems and power the healthcare and medical services that would be exempted from a considerable amount of practically useless activities.…”

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Estimate of Anemia with New Non-Invasive Systems—A Moment of Reflection

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Anemia is a global public health problem with major consequences for human health. About a quarter of the world population shows a hemoglobin concentration that is below the recommended thresholds. Non-invasive methods for monitoring and identifying potential risk of anemia and smartphone-based devices to perform this task are promising in addressing this pathology. We have considered some well-known studies carried out on this topic since the main purpose of this work was not to produce a review. The first group of papers describes the approaches for the clinical evaluation of anemia focused on different human exposed tissues, while we used a second group to overview some technologies, basic methods, and principles of operation of some devices and highlight some technical problems. Results extracted from the second group of papers examined were aggregated in two comparison tables. A growing interest in this topic is demonstrated by the increasing number of papers published recently. We believe we have identified several critical issues in the published studies, including those published by us. Just as an example, in many papers the dataset used is not described. With this paper we wish to open a discussion on these issues. Few papers have been sufficient to highlight differences in the experimental conditions and this makes the comparison of the results difficult. Differences are also found in the identification of the regions of interest in the tissue, descriptions of the datasets, and other boundary conditions. These critical issues are discussed together with open problems and common mistakes that probably we are making. We propose the definition of a road-map and a common agenda for research on this topic. In this sense, we want to highlight here some issues that seem worthy of common discussion and the subject of synergistic agreements. This paper, and in particular, the discussion could be the starting point for an open debate about the dissemination of our experiments and pave the way for further updates and improvements of what we have outlined.

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“…The causes are biological, most of the times, genetic, and social. Some of the common learning disabilities are: dysorthography related to writing skills and also dysgraphia in which, according to Di Mauro, Bevilacqua, Colizzi, and Di Pierro (2020), is a learning disorder that causes difficulties in reproducing alphabetical and numerical signs. Children with this disability write irregularly, it is very usual for them to write in an inadequate body position, with their elbows not placed on the table and they incline their back.…”

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Promoting Neurocognitive Development in Childhood

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2020

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The main psychological aspects in promoting holistic health are related to attention, care and love within the relations. It all starts in early childhood when important bonds are built between parents and child. This bond will constitute this baby as a human being who will internalize the world as it is presented to him transforming objectivity into subjectivity. This work is based on the Social Historical theory founded by Luria, Vygotsky and Leontiev, who established that psychology would provide means to acknowledge how a natural process connected to a cultural process can produce the superior mental functions. It uses didactically the principles of mediation and zone of proximal development. Considering that relations are the key for this development of superior mental functions it is important to orientate parents, teachers and community itself so that conditions are provided, with knowledge and conscience, for this development to occur. When you are present in a relation nervous connections are promoted. Results are observed qualitatively focusing that each person is an individual self and that relationships are essential to produce development. Interactions between the brain and the formation of mental functions require the maturity of the nervous system as well as an active process which emphasizes relations of two or more human beings. Therefore, the most important is not what to do but how to do. The brain grows better within a stable environment of support and low levels of stress. Affirms that safe relations are the key to healthy growth of the brain as well as emotional regulation that stimulates learning and adaptation to reality.

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TestGraphia, a Software System for the Early Diagnosis of Dysgraphia

Cited by 44 publications

References 22 publications

Semantic Segmentation of Conjunctiva Region for Non-Invasive Anemia Detection Applications

Semantic Segmentation of Conjunctiva Region for Non-Invasive Anemia Detection Applications

Estimate of Anemia with New Non-Invasive Systems—A Moment of Reflection

Promoting Neurocognitive Development in Childhood

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