A smartphone mediated portable intelligent medicine case for medication management support

Author

Suzuki, Takumi ; Nakauchi, Yasushi

Author_Institution

Fac. of Eng., Yokohama Nat. Univ., Yokohama, Japan

fYear

2014

fDate

26-30 Aug. 2014

Firstpage

3642

Lastpage

3645

Abstract

We developed an epoch-making portable intelligent medicine case for recipients who take medicine every day. The medicine case consists of a recipient´s smartphone and a mirror-embedded pill organizer. The smartphone captures medicines in the storage compartments of the organizer by using its built-in camera. The positions and shapes of mirrors were optimized in order that the smartphone can confirm the whole spaces. The medicine case calculates changes caused by medications and approximates them by quadratic curves. If a fitted curve in a space was convex downward, the medicine case judged that there are medicines in the space.

Keywords

biomedical equipment; biomedical optical imaging; biomedical telemetry; cameras; containers; curve fitting; drugs; image classification; medical image processing; mirrors; patient treatment; portable instruments; smart phones; built-in camera; curve fitting; daily medication; epoch-making portable intelligent medicine case; medication management support; medications; medicine case change calculation; medicine space; mirror position optimization; mirror shape optimization; mirror-embedded pill organizer; organizer storage compartments; quadratic curves; smartphone mediated portable intelligent medicine case; storage compartment medicine capture; Aerospace electronics; Biomedical imaging; Cameras; Image edge detection; Mirrors; Monitoring; Shape;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), 2014 36th Annual International Conference of the IEEE

Conference_Location

Chicago, IL

ISSN

1557-170X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/EMBC.2014.6944412

Filename

6944412