Title
An electronic equipment for automatic insulin dosage based on digital image processing
Date Issued
10 January 2019
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
conference paper
Publisher(s)
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Abstract
The present work proposes an electronic equipment oriented to insulin dosage with automatic control of the filling process in a syringe, using digital image processing. The equipment aim to improve the precision of the dosage, which is often carried out manually and inaccurately. The proposed system is made up of a mechanical part composed of endless screw, couplers and steppers motors. This allows the plunger of the syringe to be vertically moved and the container containing insulin punctured. It also presents a camera for the acquisition of images and an algorithm implemented in a reduced-board computer. The algorithm detects the level of filling by image processing and determines if the amount of insulin is appropriate according to the data entered by the user. The stages of processing involve thresholding, averaging filtering, detection of the syringe plunger and determination of the filling level by contrast and intensity change. The validation of the equipment was made from the absolute error of the filling volume achieving an average absolute error of 0.00106ml with respect to the indicated value.
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Endocrinología, Metabolismo (incluyendo diabetes, hormonas)
Ingeniería eléctrica, Ingeniería electrónica
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85062180704
ISBN of the container
9781538655863
Conference
IEEE ICA-ACCA 2018 - IEEE International Conference on Automation/23rd Congress of the Chilean Association of Automatic Control: Towards an Industry 4.0 - Proceedings
Sources of information:
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