(malangkota.go.id) – The joint team of new students from the 2019 batch from the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences and the Faculty of Computer Science (FILKOM) Universitas Brawijaya (UB) Malang has again made achievements at the international level. This time the achievement came from the event International Exhibition for Young Inventors (IEYI) which is organized by Japan Institute of Invention and Innovation some time ago.
The joint team consists of Rizka Fajriana Putri Ramadhani (Biology/2019), Nadia Riqqah Nurlayla (Biology/2019), and Rahmah Nur Diana (Informatics Engineering/2019). The four awards they won include silver medal, special award from China, special awards from the Philippines and special awards from Macao.
In this event, the team presented a work entitled 'Maos App: A Novel Application Using Mathematical Fractal Analysis for Schizophrenia Early Detection on Fingerprint Pattern'. Maos App is an early detection tool for schizophrenia through fingerprints using fractal mathematics.
The idea of the Maos App came from concerns about the difficulty of detecting schizophrenia early, cheaply, quickly and accurately. In creating this application, Rizka and her colleagues collaborated with a hospital in Malang to take samples from 1.000 people at random.
The purpose of this sampling is to identify any link between fingerprints and schizophrenia.
From the results of the study on the sample, it was found that the fingerprints between schizophrenia sufferers and those who were not were different. The difference was very significant, reaching 95-99 percent.
"We use fractal mathematics in detecting fingerprints of schizophrenics. Because fractals themselves can detect differences in fingerprint patterns through formulas. box counting" explained Rizka, Friday (15/11/2019).
“The principle of the fractal formula box counting is to calculate the number of boxes that cover the fingerprint object and then perform a series of iterations using the same formula by giving different box sizes. So from a series of fingerprint detections we get an accuracy value above 80%," said Rizka.
After performing fingerprint detection, the algorithm is applied in the form of a mobile application. This mobile application is integrated with a fingerprint scanner so that the process of detecting schizophrenia fingerprints becomes faster and easier.
Through this application, users of the application can find out whether the user has symptoms of schizophrenia or is normal. "This application also has a feature to provide recommendations when the user is detected as having schizophrenia," added the new student.
Rizka admitted that she did not expect her team to win four awards at once. In the future, they hope that Maos App can be commercialized in Indonesia so that its benefits can be felt together.
IEYI has been held since 2004 as an outcome of the International Forum on Intellectual Property (IFIP) meeting in Tokyo, Japan in November 2003.
The meeting was initiated by the Japan Institute of Invention and Innovation (JIII) involving countries from Asia and Africa. One of the outcomes of the meeting was an agreement to hold the International Exhibition for Young Inventors or IEYI as a form of support for the younger generation in science and technology.
This international competition was attended by eleven countries, namely Indonesia, Japan, Macau, Malaysia, the Philippines, Russia, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand, China, and Vietnam. This year there were even more than 4.000 technology innovation proposals submitted and 300 innovations were selected to be exhibited and attended by visitors, ranging from researchers, academics, related government agencies, to investors.
