Ideally, to carry out screening for eye diseases, it is expected to use specialized medical equipment to capture retinal fundus images. However, since this kind of equipment is generally expensive and has low portability, and with the development of technology and the emergence of smartphones, new portable and cheaper screening options have emerged, one of them being the D-Eye device. When compared to specialized equipment, this equipment and other similar devices associated with a smartphone present lower quality and less field-of-view in the retinal video captured, yet with sufficient quality to perform a medical pre-screening. Individuals can be referred for specialized screening to obtain a medical diagnosis if necessary. Two methods were proposed to extract the relevant regions from these lower-quality videos (the retinal zone). The first one is based on classical image processing approaches such as thresholds and Hough Circle transform. The other performs the extraction of the retinal location by applying a neural network, which is one of the methods reported in the literature with good performance for object detection, the YOLO v4, which was demonstrated to be the preferred method to apply. A mosaicing technique was implemented from the relevant retina regions to obtain a more informative single image with a higher field of view. It was divided into two stages: the GLAMpoints neural network was applied to extract relevant points in the first stage. Some homography transformations are carried out to have in the same referential the overlap of common regions of the images. In the second stage, a smoothing process was performed in the transition between images.
It is increasingly possible to acquire Electrocardiographic data with featured low-cost devices. The proposed dataset will help map different signals for various diseases related to Electrocardiography data. The dataset presented in this paper is related to the acquisition of electrocardiography data dur-ing the standing up and seated positions. The data was col-lected from 219 individuals (112 men, 106 women, and one other) in different environments, but they are in the Covilha municipality. The dataset includes the 219 recordings and corresponds to the sensors' recordings of a 30 s sitting and a 30 s standing test, which checks to approximately 1 min for each one. This dataset includes 3.7 h (approximately) of recordings for further analysis with data processing techniques and machine learning methods. It will be helpful for the complementary creation of a robust method for identifying the characteristics of individuals related to Elec-trocardiography signals. (c) 2022 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Inc. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license ( http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ )