ABSTRACT The effects of the pandemic caused by COVID-19, are causing the development of medical implements and equipment quickly, in some cases due to the emergency situation authorizations are being granted for the manufacture, marketing and use. In many cases these developments are motivated by a local need that can help mitigate the effects of COVID-19. It is in this scenario, where we present a methodology to be able to collaborate in that these developments, providing recommendations of good practices for the functional testing stage, based on the design of the test protocols and informed consent, with these testing mechanisms, are It can be presented to a health ethics committee, with the intention that it be approved for subsequent application. With the completion of the studies using the equipment developed and having passed the study protocol, the results of the study guarantee ...

ABSTRACT Diabetic retinopathy is a leading cause of vision loss in developed countries. Regular diabetic retinal eye screenings are needed to detect early signs of retinopathy, so that appropriate treatments can be rendered to prevent blindness. Digital imaging is becoming available as a means of screening for diabetic retinopathy. However, with the large number of patients undergoing screenings, medical professionals require a tremendous amount of time and effort in order to analyse and diagnose the fundus photo-graphs, the treatment is done on a digital image, to obtain results as complex as recognizing patterns or as simple as enhancing con-tours, may involve filtering, transformations of gray levels, based on histogram processing, describing, between others. The design of a teaching tool to facilitate image processing, allowing access to each of the steps involved in the system, ensu...

ABSTRACT The development of medical equipment is related to compliance with regulations, with the intention of safeguarding the physical integrity of patients, being able to ensure that a medical equipment complies with the regulations and can be registered with its respective authorization for use, it is a job long-term with the use of multiple resources. It is due to this characteristic that it is difficult for them to be able to register developments of medical equipment in most countries, either due to lack of infrastructure to carry out patient safety tests or due to the lack of regulations for the registration of medical equipment manufactured in their facilities of respective countries. In this research, a methodology is presented to be able to design medical equipment, considering the regulations and considerations regarding patient safety, as a result, a procedure based on the s...

ABSTRACT With the development of information and communication technologies, new opportunities and applications of many technologies are emerging that before could not be thought to be used, in this sense artificial intelligence is the technology that has gained greater strength, accompanied by the development of hardware that makes its execution possible and of software tools that make its implementation possible. The neural network is one of the most used techniques in the field of artificial intelligence. This work is based on analyzing possible cases of labor judicial problems, when workers who have suffered an abuse by employers are faced with. The success of the case according to the model presented, is based on being able to have the majority of documentation that evidences both the employment relationship, responsibilities of the employees, documents that support the payment of r...

ABSTRACT Satellite images provide information on land cover, these will depend on the spatial resolution for analysis, in this paper we present a technique for image analysis based on edge detection using sobel-based detectors, in their different shapes. High-resolution satellite images provide a level of detail of land cover in the submetric range, which is equivalent to detecting objects that measure less than 1 meter on average, which is interpreted in one pixel in the image; With the analysis of high resolution images, objects such as ships can be determined, which are found in ports as well as on the high seas. Edge detectors applied to objects present in high resolution images help in the analysis of the morphology of the object. In the present study, high resolution images corresponding to boats were analyzed, which allows determining the contour of the boat with respect to sea wa...

ABSTRACT Health systems are in constant change, either due to technological progress or due to the same need produced by external agents such as COVID-19, which have caused an analysis of all the information systems dedicated to the various procedures in the health area, from clinical information management, information from health insurers, image information management, drug supply management, medical supplies and supplies management, among other systems specific to each health institution. It is in this environment where a lot of vital information for decision making is produced that in most cases is impossible to manage, because it is found on different platforms and in most cases in different institutions. The present research presents a methodology for the exchange of information between systems based on the interoperability of systems and using the XML standard, very similar to wha...

ABSTRACT Information and communication technologies are revolutionizing the different areas of knowledge, and medicine is an area where the uses of new technologies are put into practice for the well-being of people. But these new ways of using technology produce a high risk when information is required to be transmitted, either due to the loss of information also due to the risk that the information may be altered for different reasons and due to the theft of information. It is for these reasons that it is necessary to have certain mechanisms to be able to achieve the maximum integrity of the information, in this work a methodology is presented to be able to safely transmit information from the different medical teams to medical information based on an organization of the information, in order to present in a practical way its possible implementation in the development of systems to dev...

ABSTRACT Sleep Apnea is one of the lesser-known pathologies that many people do not take into consideration when conducting a medical check-up, but it is one of the indicators of levels of fatigue, stress that are shown by lack of sleep, bad sleeping habits or other silent indicators such as problems breathing when sleeping, snoring among others. In these moments of confinement in our homes caused by COVID-19, where most of them cannot work, study or do other activities in person, certain levels of stress begin to emerge in both adults and children, these manifestations are shown in problems at bedtime. In the present work an analysis is carried out on the possible consequences of Sleep Apnea, as well as a methodology based on the use of Weareable Devices is presented, to be able to analyze how our way of sleeping is and thus be attentive to any changes in the demonstrations at bedtime. ...

ABSTRACT Information and communication technologies are managing to modify certain essential aspects in the lives of forgives, one of the positive impacts on the lives of people and even more so in the communities, is related to the democratization of health, bringing health For most people, it improves the quality of life, thus, the objective of this work is to be able to present a practical methodology, to be able to carry out a remote diagnosis, through the analysis of medical images, whether of any type or modality, the methodology is very practical because it does not require high value infrastructure, on the contrary it is considered as low cost, because we use computational resources that are available. The methodology allows a diagnosis by a doctor specializing in radiology, who being at a distance can help the diagnosis. The methodology allows the transmission of information, es...

ABSTRACT The pandemic caused by COVID-19, allowed to know at many levels, the situation of hospitals and its impact on the services they provide to the population. At the times with the highest rate of infections, health centers in most countries were brought to their maximum capacity, most of them collapsing and ceasing to attend to patients. Many health centers were dedicated only to treating patients infected by COVID-19. Lacking medical attention to the other specialties. In this environment, many of the symptomatic patients, such as asymptomatic ones, did not know if they had been infected, much less, did not know if they were infected, many of them were unable to detect certain symptoms so that they could request specialized medical attention. This work is dedicated to using low-cost devices as an evaluation and alert mechanism for possible symptoms caused by COVID-19, the methodol...

ABSTRACT Information and communication technologies are causing a positive impact on people's lives, from communication through mobile devices, which can also be used in multiple applications, such as educational, recreation, among others. One of the areas where it is causing a greater impact is health, because of how important the use of technology is both in diagnosis and treatment, it could be said that in health systems, technology is your best ally, In the present work, a low-cost system is proposed for the management of basic and necessary clinical information, which can be a determining factor in the preservation of the person's life. There are certain factors that can help maintain people's lives in an emergency, such as blood type, if you are allergic to a certain medication, if you have a heart problem, diabetes problems, knowing your personal information, this Information must...

ABSTRACT Online classes have become in these times of pandemic by COVID-19, an alternative to continue studying; applied at all educational levels, from schoolchildren to postgraduate studies through University and Technical studies. This study evaluates the levels of attention and meditation applied to children from 8 to 12 years old, when they are doing their virtual classes, using a BCI device, which is installed on the children's head like a headband. Through which the level of attention and meditation is evaluated at the time of taking their classes online. The results show that children when they start their classes have a higher level of concentration compared to when the class is in the middle where children begin to decrease their level of concentration due to distraction, thus increasing their level of meditation. It is concluded that children tend to be distracted when they re...

“ In these times of pandemic caused by Covid-19, new ways of dealing with the effects of the virus emerge, for this reason multiple measures are being carried out with the intention of mitigating its effects in the event of a possible contagion, which is why vaccinations are being carried out massive in order to be able to defend oneself against potential contagions, in this work an application made using the NFC communication protocol that mobile devices have is shown, as a result the demonstration of the use of the application is presented, where it reflects the data to be entered and can be viewed from any device“

In the development of educational activities, being able to understand and understand the activities carried out is important to be able to have the greatest concentration, many techniques use audio-visual educational material. Taking advantage of this material in the present work a methodology is proposed to be able to use this material using low-cost devices, in order to have a virtual reality system with all the functionalities and with a control where the development of the material that is being displayed can be monitored. as well as being able to manage the material. The methodology proposes the use of virtual reality glasses the size for children, a cell phone, a computer and a wireless network, accompanied by a virtual reality program that can be configured and connected between a computer, this configuration is done using the application “Trinus VR”, which allows us to conne...

The purpose of this work is to be able to identify the levels of attention and meditation at the time the virtual classes are held, as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic; the conventional way of studying change considerably, and to a greater extent the physical place where the classes are held. Faced with this situation, children tend to be distracted by many distracting agents such as television. The proposed methodology allows evaluating the levels of attention and meditation in children when they are in their virtual classes, it is evaluated using a device for measuring brain signals better known as the brain-computer interface, which provides us with a level of attention and of meditation from 0 to 100%. The results that are presented are related to average values of the measurements made, to demonstrate the methodology was evaluated by two situations, the first is the measurement of ...

In the learning and training processes, simulation is taking a lot of strength due to the ease and recurrence that it allows us, managing to perform it repeatedly until reaching the necessary skills. We find simulation in different applications Such as doctors, in engineering, where what is tried is to reproduce the experimentation environment in a similar way, that is why we find today a number of applications, tools, programming languages, dedicated development environments to be able to implement simulation environments. The present work proposes a method to be able to analyze the connectivity patterns to be able to recommend the use and applications of the different types of networks, making an analysis of these connections in the realization of video games, in the study various video games that we can find were evaluated In the market, these video games have a particularity that wit...

Currently with the development of technology, we can find a number of devices with different communication and connectivity technologies, which can be used for different applications. We can find devices that can be connected through wireless networks using protocols such as WIFI, Bluetooth, RF, among others, that allow information to be sent and received. We also find devices that are used to store relevant and important information and that is always available such as RFID. In an analysis to evaluate the strategy in solving problems, we can find different ways to use these devices working individually, the complexity of the solution grows increasing the level of complexity, if you decide to integrate different communication protocols with the intention to have a more robust solution that allows the integration of different technologies. In this paper we present a methodology to be able...

IoT technology is making a strong foray into all work areas, the health sector is not the exception, for this reason many applications are presented more frequently giving solutions to complex problems, thanks to technology a lot of sensitive information is being created that previous years did not It was thought that it could occur, one of them is the creation of databases of medical information, with which applications can be developed based on the exploitation of these data, another type of application is related to the location of certain devices with The intention of locating them in real time, based on this application in this work a methodology is developed to be able to monitor in real time patients admitted to health centers, knowing if they are in their room, also knowing if the patient needs any help with which the nurse on duty can approach to provide assistance. The methodol...

Regenerative diseases, as is the case of arthritis, generate a change in the morphology of the fingers and toes; thus, as time passes, the joints of the fingers begin to deform, which causes a change in the morphology of the joints and fingers. One of the effects that is noticeable by patients is the pain that these deformations cause in addition to the deterioration of the maneuverability of objects with hands. In this article we present a method for the analysis of the fingers of the hands, through the analysis of images obtained through the photographic registration of the hand, then the value of the fractal dimension (FD) is obtained, to know the objective index for the measurement of the morphology of the hand, in this way it is possible to evaluate the deformation of the joints of the fingers, In this way it is possible to analyze and monitor the level of deformation, thus being ab...

THE COMBUSTION ENGINES ARE WIDELY USED IN THE DAILY LIFE OF PEOPLE, IN CARS, WE FIND THEM WITH GREATER EMPHASIS, AND CURRENTLY HYBRID ENGINES AND ELECTRIC MOTORS ARE BEING USED. IN THIS ANALYSIS, ONE OF THE IMPORTANT FACTORS FOR THE FAILURE OF COMBUSTION ENGINES IS THE TEMPERATURE, FOR WHICH CARS HAVE COOLING SYSTEMS, THROUGH THE USE OF RADIATORS AND COOLANT-BASED SYSTEMS. IN THIS WORK WE PRESENT A METHODOLOGY FOR THE ANALYSIS OF THE STATE OF THE COMPONENTS OF THE COMBUSTION ENGINE SYSTEM IN CARS, THROUGH THE USE AND ANALYSIS OF THERMAL IMAGES, FOR WHICH IT IS NECESSARY TO IDENTIFY THE ZONES OR CONTROL POINTS DEPENDING ON THE MODEL AND TYPE OF ENGINE AND CAR, THE ANALYSIS PROCEDURE REQUIRES A THERMAL CAMERA, THE RESULTS PRESENTED ARE RELATED TO THE COMPARISON OF AN OPTICAL AND THERMAL IMAGE, IN ORDER TO LOCATE THE CONTROL POINT, THE METHOD CAN BE APPLIED BY MECHANICS, MAINTENANCE PERSONN...