Vein extraction for an intravenous injection support system using Mahalanobis distance

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 suppo...

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Main Authors: Yimit, A., Hagihara, Y., Miyoshi, T.
Format: Conference Proceeding
Language:English
Subjects:
Cameras
Data mining
Educational institutions
Image color analysis
Image processing
intravenous injection
Mahalanobis distance
Medical system
Skin
Universal Serial Bus
vein extraction
Veins
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Summary: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.