Title :
Vein extraction for an intravenous injection support system using Mahalanobis distance
Author :
Yimit, Adiljan ; Hagihara, Yoshihiro ; Miyoshi, Tasuku ; Hagihara, Yukari
Author_Institution :
Grad. Sch. of Eng., Iwate Univ., Iwate, Japan
Abstract :
Intravenous injection is a significant factor to increase the workload of medical staff when the vein injection is performed. To ease the workload, a variety of support systems have been developed. However, most of them are large-scaled and expensive. In order to construct a low-cost injection support system, a new method to extract veins from USB camera image was proposed. Our scheme consists of preprocessing of vein images, teaching data creation and vein extraction using the Mahalanobis distance. We have applied this approach to 60 images to extract veins and showed its useful function.
Keywords :
blood vessels; feature extraction; medical image processing; Mahalanobis distance; USB camera image; intravenous injection support system; vein extraction; vein image preprocessing; Cameras; Data mining; Educational institutions; Image color analysis; Skin; Universal Serial Bus; Veins; Image processing; Mahalanobis distance; Medical system; intravenous injection; vein extraction;
Conference_Titel :
SICE Annual Conference (SICE), 2011 Proceedings of
Conference_Location :
Tokyo
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-0714-8
