Portable Subcutaneous Vein Imaging System

Sravani, S. N.; Naqvi, Sumbul Zahra; Sriraam, N.; Mansoor, Manam; Badshah, Imran; Saleem, Mohammed; Kumaravelu, G.

doi:10.4018/ijbce.2013070102

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“…The OpenCV library contains a huge number of algorithms that can be used for augmented reality, image processing, face recognition, objects identifying, etc. [34]. The main screen shown in Fig.…”

Section: Mobile App Developmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

Digital Vein Mapping Using Augmented Reality

Taha¹,

Ibrahim²,

Zayed³

2020

IJIES

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Vein detection is an important issue for the medical field. There are some commercial devices for detecting veins using infrared radiation. However, most of these commercial solutions are cost-prohibitive. Recently, veins detection has attracted much attention from research teams. The main focus is on developing real-time systems with low-cost hardware. Systems developed to reduce costs suffer from low frame rates. This, in turn, makes these systems not suitable for real-world applications. On the other hand, systems that use powerful processors to produce high frame rates suffer from high costs and a lack of mobility. In this paper, a real-time vein mapping prototype using augmented reality is proposed. The proposed prototype provides a compromised solution to produce high frame rates with a low-cost system. It consists of a USB camera attached to an Android smartphone used for real-time detection. Infrared radiation is employed to differentiate the veins using 20 Infrared Light Emitting Diodes (LEDs). The captured frames are processed to enhance vein detection using light computational algorithms to improve real-time processing and increase frame rate. Finally, the enhanced view of veins appears on the smartphone screen. Portability and economic cost are taken into consideration while developing the proposed prototype. The proposed prototype is tested with people of different ages and gender, as well as using mobile devices of different specifications. The results show a high vein detection rate and a high frame rate compared to other existing systems.

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Section: Mobile App Developmentmentioning

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Digital Vein Mapping Using Augmented Reality

Taha¹,

Ibrahim²,

Zayed³

2020

IJIES

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“…Vein imaging is critical for phlebotomy, which is an important process for most medical clinical applications. A study showed that approximately 90% of hospitalized patients may need peripheral cannulation for the intravenous route of treatment, with more than a billion venous punctures performed annually for diagnostic tests [1]. In the case of patients with shock, hypotension, trauma, or burns, in infants, the elderly, and the obese, the health personnel may find it difficult to detect vessels using traditional methods.…”

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A portable multispectral vein imaging system

Özkan

Aydin

Ozcan

et al. 2023

Journal of Electrical Engineering

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Phlebotomy may cause unnecessary injuries to a patient whose veins are not easily visible to a healthcare professional. To mitigate this problem we designed a new system to image subcutaneous veins. Multispectral images were obtained using a microprocessor, an IR (infrared) camera, different wavelengths of NIR (near-infrared) sources, and an IR band-pass filter. Raw vein images were enhanced, colored, and displayed on a monitor using an easy-to-use interface. The mean dice similarity index (DSI) between the vein border specified by a doctor on the raw images manually and the automated segmented by the proposed system is determined as 0.92 ± 2.1 for 20 subjects. Also, the average peak signal-to-noise ratio (PSNR) obtained a high value of 68.37 ± 1.56 from the enhanced image. Phlebotomists can easily observe the subcutaneous veins in real-time with the three different options using the proposed device. As a result, this study advances the vein imaging field which has the potential to reduce injury to the patient during venipuncture.

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“…The haemoglobin derivate was discovered based on the absorption co-efficient of blood in the visible and NIR region. Sravani et al, (2013) have proposed a portable subcutaneous vein imaging system. The system comprises of NIR LED's of 800nm wavelength embedded in the IR web camera.…”

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“…The system comprises of NIR LED's of 800nm wavelength embedded in the IR web camera. It has been shown that the proposed system was able to locate the various veins and proved to be potential device for intravenous applications like venipuncture and other clinical applications (Sravani et al, 2013).…”

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A Measure to Study Skin Reflectance using Non-Invasive Photosensor with Economic Design

Vittal

Sriraam

Mala

et al. 2015

International Journal of Biomedical and Clinical Engineering

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Non-invasive mode of clinical testing has created a major impact on the society and finds huge demand in the clinical domain. There are several instances where such approach receives more co-operations from the patient. Replacing the traditional practice with such non-invasive procedure requires appropriate clinical investigation and validations, specifically exact location of veins for intravenous applications like venepuncture and other medical procedures. Collection of blood samples for bilirubin test for new-borns, blood sugar level detection also needs a special attention where such non-invasive procedure is highly preferred. Such clinical methodology highly relies on the selection/design of photo sensor and works on the principles of light that gets scattered from the human skin. This specific research study attempts to measure the effect of the photo sensor on the skin reflection and how the properties can be exploited for bilirubin test to detect jaundice for new-borns. Neonatal jaundice often referred as hyperbilirubinemia which indicates the concentration of serum bilirubin levels in blood stream. The higher and lower bilirubin levels can cause irreversible brain damage which is referred as kernicterus. The yellowish spot due to bilirubin deposition in the neonatal skin tissue indicates the presence or absence of jaundice. Several attempts have been made in the recent past to develop non-invasive mode of measuring the blood concentration level for recognition of bilirubin levels. The proposed research study involves in measuring the skin reflectance using photo sensor and to measure the bilirubin concentration in a non-invasive mode. A GaAsP yellow LED with a wavelength of 590nm with TEPT5700 light sensors was applied and Arduino real time processor was interfaced to the circuitry. The system was designed in such a manner that the buzzer activation indicates the severity of the bilirubin concentration. The lab based circuitry was converted in to indigenous prototype and was tested with newborn in a real time mode. The clinical validation was found to be quite promising. It can be concluded that the designed system was found to be more economic and can introduce in the primary healthcare sector.

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Portable Subcutaneous Vein Imaging System

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Digital Vein Mapping Using Augmented Reality

Digital Vein Mapping Using Augmented Reality

A portable multispectral vein imaging system

A Measure to Study Skin Reflectance using Non-Invasive Photosensor with Economic Design

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