Development of three dimensional blood vessel search system by using on stereo and autofocus hybrid method

Author

Nakamachi, E.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Biomed. Eng., Doshisha Univ., Kyotanabe, Japan

fYear

2011

fDate

Aug. 30 2011-Sept. 3 2011

Firstpage

6142

Lastpage

6145

Abstract

In this study, we developed an accurate three dimensional blood vessel search (3D BVS) system and an automatic operated blood sampling system. These systems were implemented into the point-of-care system for the ubiquitous medical care, which was featured as the portable type self-monitoring blood glucose (SMBG) devise. It resolved the human error problem, which causes by the complicated manual operation of blood sampling and blood glucose measurement in conventional SMBG devices. In this study, we mainly discuss the performance examination of accurate position detection of blood vessel. Our 3D BVS system employed the near-infrared (NIR) light imaging process and the stereo and autofocus hybrid method to determine the 3D blood vessel location accurately. We evaluated the accuracy of our 3D BVS system by using the phantom of human skin, blood vessel and blood. As a result, we validated a very good performance ability of our 3D BVS system for a portable type SMBG device.

Keywords

biomedical optical imaging; blood; blood vessels; infrared imaging; medical image processing; phantoms; stereo image processing; 3D BVS system; 3D blood vessel location; SMBG; autofocus hybrid method; automatic operated blood sampling; blood glucose measurement; human skin; near-infrared light imaging; phantom; point-of-care system; self-monitoring blood glucose; three dimensional blood vessel search system; ubiquitous medical care; Biomedical imaging; Blood; Cameras; Fingers; Sugar; Three dimensional displays; Blood Glucose; Blood Glucose Self-Monitoring; Blood Specimen Collection; Blood Vessels; Equipment Design; Humans; Imaging, Three-Dimensional; Models, Statistical; Phantoms, Imaging; Point-of-Care Systems; Reproducibility of Results; Skin; Spectroscopy, Near-Infrared;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBC, 2011 Annual International Conference of the IEEE

Conference_Location

Boston, MA

ISSN

1557-170X

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-4121-1

Electronic_ISBN

1557-170X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IEMBS.2011.6091517

Filename

6091517