APP “GONIOMETRO” para Determinar el Ángulo Formado entre los Huesos Humero y Radio – Cubito en el Plano Sagital Mediante el Procesamiento de Imágenes para Dispositivos Android

Abstract

Information and communication technologies or ICT in recent years even a couple of decades have been well received, now existing in diversity of devices offering hundreds of products and / or services. The solutions that have been able to reach them range from academic, research to work, reducing the gap in advanced countries with those of the third world and all thanks to the easy access that these have. Under this premise is born the idea of creating a prototype application for smart devices with Android operating system that allows to help and facilitate work in the field of medicine, more specifically in the area of orthopedics. Nowadays specialists in this area use less ergonomic measurement instruments as well as imprecise, that is why a goniometer-type application was developed for smartphones, which allows to measure the angles formed at the elbow joint in the sagittal plane supported in the Cameras of these devices and of the technique of the image processing, obtaining a more accurate measurement besides having the alternative of storing this information in a database. The application of the smartphone communicates constantly with the database in order to facilitate the visualization of the measurements and to be able to make a complete and detailed record of the patients on whom they are used. These applications not only simplify the work of the specialists but are expected to be a reference for implementing ICT solutions in the area of health.