Prototype for determination of pre-transfusion tests based on image processing techniques

Author

Ferraz, Ana ; Machado, Jose ; Carvalho, Vitor

Author_Institution

Ind. Electron. Eng. Dept., Univ. of Minho, Guimaraes, Portugal

fYear

2015

fDate

26-28 Feb. 2015

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

This paper presents an innovative prototype to perform pre-transfusion tests especially developed for emergency situations. This prototype is portable and automates the procedure of the plate test. The prototype is based on image processing techniques to analyze the captured images from the performed test. The image processing techniques are able to detect agglutination reactions in the samples and based on the results of occurrence or absence of agglutination the result of the test is given. This paper also presents a user-friendly interface application to be used with the prototype developed. In this study the tests were performed with the prototype for ABO and Rh blood types and the prototype was tested with donor blood samples.

Keywords

AC motors; biomedical measurement; blood; diagnostic expert systems; emergency management; emergency services; health care; hospitals; image capture; medical image processing; patient care; patient diagnosis; portable instruments; ABO blood type prototype; Rh blood types prototype; agglutination reaction detection; automated test procedure prototype; blood agglutination reaction; blood pretransfusion test; blood sample-tested prototype; blood test performance prototype; blood test procedure prototype; captured image analysis; donor blood sample test; emergency situation-associated pretransfusion test; image processing technique-detected reaction; image processing techniques; image processing-based pretransfusion test; image processing-based prototype; innovative test performance prototype; performed test-captured image; plate test procedure; portable test procedure prototype; pretransfusion test determination; sample agglutination absence; sample agglutination occurrence; sample agglutination reaction; test determination prototype; user-friendly interface application; Blood; Cameras; Containers; Image processing; Prototypes; Standards; Testing; blood type; image processing; pre-transfusion tests; prototype;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Bioengineering (ENBENG), 2015 IEEE 4th Portuguese Meeting on

Conference_Location

Porto

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ENBENG.2015.7088849

Filename

7088849