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New technique improves identification of infants

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Modernization can help to prevent exchange of babies and illegal adoption.

In several areas, the ink and paper have lost space for digital technology. Now the revolution should also come to the hospitals. Mandatory since the implementation of the Statute of the Child and Adolescent, the identification of babies through the collection of prints of the feet of the plant is a tradition followed for more than one hundred years in the country. However, the low quality makes fault identification and helps babies and that trading of illegal adoptions happen more easily. Aiming to improve the current method of identification, the researcher Daniel Weingaertner, professor, Department of Informatics, Federal University of Parana (UFPR), presented a new technique for collecting prints scanned.

The method was developed first in the category of Doctoral Incentive Award in Science and Technology for SUS 2008, the Ministry of Health In the study, being done within the area of Technology Assessment in Health of the Ministry, were collected the impressions of 106 babies born in hospitals in Curitiba. Instead of the traditional technique of ink and paper, the researchers used a high-definition optical sensor, formed by a digital camera and a lens coupled supermacro a structure for an acrylic prism of optical glass.

With a total of 848 prints of the palm of the hands and soles of the feet, Weingaertner found that 81% of the images of the impressions of the hands showed quality, only 34% of impressions of the feet. The images of the palm of the hands have a more clear view and detail of the fingerprint, unique and unambiguous for each individual.

According to the doctor in pediatrics and coordinator of the Graduate Program in Health of Children and Adolescents, Department of Pediatrics of UFPR, Monica Nunes Lima Cat, the research represents an important step in developing an automated system for identification and digital . "The findings mark the perspective of developing a system for the identification of newborns to ensure their safety since birth and movement within the hospitals to the borders of the country," he says.

The pediatrician Lígia Beatriz Ribas Vieira Kern, Planton the neonatal ICU of the Hospital Nossa Senhora das Graças, approved the initiative and says the scan is an interesting method to reduce the possibility of errors. "The traditional technique, when properly used, is a good method. But most often this happens, the work can be useless in identifying any need for the baby, "he says. The pediatrician also Caroline Caron Fukushima, the Hospital Angelina Caron, agrees and says that the modernization of identification would also more calm for the mothers. "The biggest concern they have is with a possible exchange of babies. We use a set of security measures that guarantee the individual, but as regards the collection of prints, scanning the proposal is a major advance, because even allow the storage in a database, "he says.



Source: Gazeta do Povo

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