Quantitative measurement of human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG) based on digital image processing

Author

Shi, Mengying ; Cui, Meng ; Zhu, Yisheng ; Niu, Jinhai ; Tong, Shanbao

Author_Institution

Dept. of Biomed. Eng., Shanghai Jiao Tong Univ., Shanghai, China

Volume

2

fYear

2010

fDate

16-18 Oct. 2010

Firstpage

477

Lastpage

479

Abstract

Our research aims to develop a novel method for quantitative measurement of hCG concentration in human serum. Based on digital imaging processing technique, the relationship between hCG concentration and image information of reaction dot on hCG test sample can be built and be described as a standard curve. According to this standard curve, concentration of hCG sample can be measured. The image information of hCG test sample is captured by CCD mini-camera and is processed by digital signal processor (DSP). The sensitivity can be under 10mIU/ml. The high accuracy makes our system significantly potential application in clinical diagnosis.

Keywords

biomedical measurement; biomedical optical imaging; digital signal processing chips; gynaecology; medical image processing; obstetrics; proteins; CCD minicamera; DSP; clinical diagnosis; digital image processing; glycoprotein hormone; human chorionic gonadotropin; human serum; image information; pregnancy testing; Accuracy; Digital signal processing; Humans; Image color analysis; Pixel; Pregnancy; Prototypes; POCT; digital image processing; digital signal processor; hCG; quantitative measurement;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Biomedical Engineering and Informatics (BMEI), 2010 3rd International Conference on

Conference_Location

Yantai

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-6495-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/BMEI.2010.5639252

Filename

5639252