A novel design of urine test strip with spatially adjacent reference color chart

Author

Se-Hui Han ; Moon-Soo Ra ; Geon-Song Lee ; Whoi-Yul Kim ; Duck-An Kim

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. & Comput. Eng., Hanyang Univ., Seoul, South Korea

fYear

2014

fDate

22-25 June 2014

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

2

Abstract

Urine test strips are frequently used to analyze health status of patients due to its simplicity. However, in order to analyze the urine test strip, expensive hardware is required to match changed colors. In order to solve the problem, a novel design of the urine test strip is proposed. By using the proposed design, extra equipment is not required and the proposed design is robust against illumination changes. Through a series of experiments, the proposed design gives a correct decision in general, dim, and flash light condition.

Keywords

biochemistry; biomedical equipment; lighting; patient diagnosis; product design; spectrochemical analysis; strips; changed color matching; dim light condition; flash light condition; general light condition; illumination changes; medical equipment; patient health status analysis; robustness; spatially adjacent reference color chart; urine test strip analysis hardware; urine test strip design; Cameras; Color; Image color analysis; Lighting; Robustness; Standards; Strips; color illumination invariance; urine test strip;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Consumer Electronics (ISCE 2014), The 18th IEEE International Symposium on

Conference_Location

JeJu Island

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISCE.2014.6884483

Filename

6884483