UNAIR NEWS – Technological development such as smartphone technology is growing rapidly and it has been a primary necessity in society. By utilizing Android based phones development, students of Universitas Airlangga have developed an application to detect diabetes complication in the eye or known as Diabetic Retinopathy.

Through a proposal of Invention Student Creativity Program (PKM-KC) 2016, the application called Adedirable was successfully developed by Biomedical Engineering students from Faculty of Science and Technology. They are Kusnul Romimah, Riza Umi Nurjannah, Bestia Kumala Wardani, Debrina Rizka Pangesti, and Nurrahmah Wida Achmadi.

Adedirable is an idea of the students for OKM-KC proposal titled “Adedirable (Automated Detection Diabetic Retinopathy Portable) Based on Android with Artificial Nervous System”.

The development of this application was inspired by the great number of cases of Diabetic Retinopathy. Based on the data released by World Health Organization (WHO), there was 40 percent of diabetic patient suffered from Diabetic Retinopathy.

“Diabetic patients only pay attention to blood sugar level and forget the eye health. The Diabetic Retinopathy exam itself should be conducted in hospital which has a device to capture fundus image and it tends to be expensive,” said Khusnul.

After downloading the app from Playstore, users can place their eye in front of the primary camera and the fundus image will be captured. It will be processed and showed the result.

Editor: Defrina Sukma S