Non-Invasive Estimation of Hemoglobin in Blood Using Color Analysis

Author

Srinivasan, K.S. ; Lakshmi, D. ; Ranganathan, H. ; Gunasekaran, N.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. & Commun. Eng., Sathyabhama Univ., Chennai

fYear

2006

fDate

8-11 Aug. 2006

Firstpage

547

Lastpage

549

Abstract

It is said that a drop of blood can save one´s life. There are some diseases such as Anemia that are more dreaded, especially in pregnant women and children. Diagnosis of these diseases requires regular blood tests. The diagnosis requires sophisticated equipment with trained technician. In developed world this does not pose a problem, but in developing world this is a problem. In many rural settings, this facility is just not available. This non-availability poses serious health hazards. So there is a need for simpler and effective method to diagnose these diseases. It is found that color of blood can give an indication to the severity of these diseases. In our approach, we suggest non-invasive diagnosis of Anemia

Keywords

biomedical optical imaging; diseases; haemodynamics; image colour analysis; medical image processing; neural nets; optical information processing; proteins; Anemia; artificial neural network; blood flow; color image analysis; health hazards; hemoglobin; noninvasive diagnosis; Blood; Color; Diseases; Humans; Industrial electronics; Iron; Oxygen; Pediatrics; Pregnancy; Testing; Color Analysis-Non-invasive technique for Anemia detection; Estimation of Hemoglobin in Human blood;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Industrial and Information Systems, First International Conference on

Conference_Location

Peradeniya

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0322-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICIIS.2006.365788

Filename

4216649