Sílvia Rêgo

University of Porto | UP

BACKGROUND Digital endpoints are clinical outcome measures captured by a certain technology or sensor, during activities of daily living. They enable traditional outcome measures to be assessed in a more precise and accurate way and to have new outcome measures that were not previously possible to assess. Their use in clinical care and research nee...

The new European Union Medical Device Regulation (MDR) – Regulation EU 2017/745, which came into effect on May 26, 2021, expands the scope of medical devices to “any instrument, apparatus, appliance, software, implant, reagent, material or other article intended by the manufacturer to be used, alone or in combination, for human beings for one or mo...

Screening diabetic retinopathy, a major cause of blindness, is time-consuming for ophthalmologists and has some constrains in achieving full coverage and attendance. The handheld fundus camera EyeFundusScope was recently developed to expand the scale of screening, drawing on images acquired in primary care and telescreening made by ophthalmologists...

Background: According to the United Nations, it is estimated that by 2050, the number of people aged 80 years and older will have increased by 3 times. Increased longevity is often accompanied by structural and functional changes that occur throughout an individual’s lifespan. These changes are often aggravated by chronic comorbidities, adopted beh...

Diabetic Retinopathy is a complication of diabetes that can cause severe vision impairment or even blindness. The condition is treatable in early stages, but it often progresses asymptomatic and undetected. Once the symptoms become noticeable, damage in the retina might already be permanent, thus many countries have implemented retinal imaging scre...

Older adults are often stereotyped as having less technological ability than younger age groups. As a result, older individuals may avoid using technology due to stereotype threat, the fear of confirming negative stereotypes about their social group. The present research examined the role of stereotype threat within the Technology Acceptance Model...

BACKGROUND According to the United Nations it is estimated that by 2050 the number of people aged 80 and over will triple. The increased longevity is often accompanied by structural and functional changes occurring throughout the lifespan. These changes are often aggravated by chronic comorbidities, adopted behaviours and lifestyles and environment...

Background According to the United Nations, it is estimated that by 2050, the number of people aged 80 years and older will have increased by 3 times. Increased longevity is often accompanied by structural and functional changes that occur throughout an individual’s lifespan. These changes are often aggravated by chronic comorbidities, adopted beha...

Purpose: To evaluate the diagnostic accuracy of a diagnostic system software for the automated screening of diabetic retinopathy (DR) on digital colour fundus photographs, the 2019 Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) model with Inception-V3. Methods: In this cross-sectional study 295 fundus images were analysed by the CNN model and compared to a...