Graphical User Interface (GUI) of Digital Index Evaluation System for Finger Clubbing Identification

This paper presents the development of a Graphical User Interface (GUI)for calculating the sum of nail-fold (NF) and distal interphalangeal joint(DIP) ratios for all ten fingers. The sum of NF:DIP ratios for all ten fingersleads to the Digital Index (DI) that was used as the measure for identifyingand determining the presence of finger clubbing symptom. This GUI systemwas developed to serve as a simple and user-friendly interface for cliniciansto calculate DI value of patients in a busy clinic practice. It is also equippedwith the capability to keep the patient’s past diagnosis medical check-updata for future monitoring purposes. The result shows that the developedsystem helps the clinicians to perform calculation of DI value and identifythe presence of finger clubbing in a very short time. The average time taken to measure both NF and DIP circumferences using Finger Clubbing Meter,and to compute DI values using Digital Index Evaluation System (DIES)interface is 6:36 ± 1:24 minutes (Mean ± SD) .This system is expected tocontribute in detecting the finger clubbing problem at early stage of so thetreatment can be performed immediately.