Separability Filter for Localizing Abnormal Pupil: Identification of Input Image

 Separability filter method is a reliable method for pupil detection. However, so far this method is implemented for detecting pupil of normal eye, while for abnormal eye such as cataract and glaucoma patients; they have different characteristics of pupil such as color, shape and radius size of pupil. In this paper we propose to use separability filter for detecting pupil of abnormal patients with different characteristics. We faced a problem about radius size, shape and color of pupil; therefore we implemented Hough Transform, Blob area and Brightness for identifying input images before applying separability filter. The experiment results show that we can increase performance of pupil detection for abnormal eye to be 95.65%

Brightness and Contrast Modification in Ultrasonography Images Using Edge Detection Results

Currently, ultrasonography device become an important equipment for supporting diagnosis in diesases. Unfortunetaly, a lot of ultrasonography images do not provide enough information for supporting diagnosis especially images produced by low-resolution ultrasonography. It is caused by image quality that has been produced is inadequate because of noise. This research aims to improve image quality by modifying brightness and contrast to the edge detection algorithms. By modifying the brightness and contrast will cause the value of standard deviation of the ultrasonography image is lowered. Raising setting values will cause deviation standard value becomes smaller, and also the result of standard deviation is inversely proportional to the value of RMSE.  The results show that this modification can improve image quality by reducing noise significantly

HUBUNGAN PERILAKU KEBERSIHAN PERORANGAN DENGAN KECACINGAN PADA SISWA SD SUSUKAN KECAMATAN SUMBANG KABUPATEN BANYUMAS

Kecacingan merupakan salah satu penyebab infeksi yang sering dijumpai di negara tropis, seperti Indonesia. Gejala kecacingan yang tidak khas menyebabkan keberadaan cacing di dalam tubuh penderita tidak diketahui dan sering diabaikan. Kecamatan Sumbang, Kabupaten Banyumas merupakan salah satu daerah yang memiliki faktor risiko infeksi kecacingan khususnya Soil Transmitted Helmiths (STHs) pada anak. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui prevalensi kecacingan dan hubungan perilaku kebersihan perorangan dengan kejadian kecacingan pada siswa SD Susukan, Kecamatan Sumbang, Kabupaten Banyumas. Identifikasi telur cacing parasit usus dilakukan menggunakan pemeriksaan feses metode apung. Uji Chi square dilakukan untuk melihat adanya hubungan antara variabel perilaku kebersihan perorangan siswa SD Susukan dengan kejadian infeksi kecacingan. Prevalensi kecacingan di SD Susukan, Kecamatan Sumbang, Kabupaten Banyumas adalah sebesar 6,8% dengan spesies yang ditemukan adalah A. lumbricoides dan Hymenolepis sp. Tidak terdapat hubungan antara variabel perilaku kebersihan perorangan siswa SD dengan kejadian infeksi kecacingan (p=0,197)

Directly observed treatment increases drug compliance in lymphatic filariasis mass drug administration

Backgroud. Mass drug administration (MDA) has been one of the strategies for lymphatic filariasis elimination. Since the start of implementation in 2011 in Pekalongan, no study on MDA acceptability has yet been done. The objectives of the study were to determine the microfilaria rate (mf rate) and the risk factors of drug compliance in the MDA program. Methods A longitudinal study was conducted at Pabean region, Pekalongan City. There were 90 household heads as subjects, who were selected by proportional cluster random sampling. Microfilaria rate (mf rate) was determined by finger blood examination. Drug compliance was measured using questionnaires and observation sheets. Drug compliance observers, filariasis counseling participation, and presence of filariasis patients were factors influencing drug compliance. Results Mf rate in 2015 was 1.35% and drug compliance rate was 86.80%. Reasons for failing to take drugs were fear of side effects (50%), refusals (25%), laziness (16.7%), and perceiving the drug to be useless (8.3%). The chi-square test shows a significant difference between the presence of drug compliance observer and compliance (p=0.006). Filariasis counseling participation and presence of filariasis patients did not show a significant difference with drug compliance (p= 0.986). Conclusions Families as the source of observers was associated with increased filariasis drug compliance. It is therefore essential to address the issues linked to low compliance to make the program more efficient and achieve the goal of filariasis elimination