AUTOMATIC DETERMINATION OF HUMAN BLOOD TYPES USING IMAGE PROCESSING TECHNIQUES

Ana Ferraz, Vítor Carvalho, Patrícia Bandão

2010

Abstract

This paper presents a methodology to automatically determine human blood types using image processing techniques. As a reference, in the experimental analysis it was used the plate method, being registered the results with a digital camera. The obtained images were analyzed and processed with a custom application developed with IMAQ Vision from National Instruments, allowing the automatic blood type classification of the sample under test. The implementation in health units of a system based in the presented approach will enable between others, the risk reduction of fatal transfusions associated with wrong human blood type interpretation.

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Ferraz A., Carvalho V. and Bandão P. (2010). AUTOMATIC DETERMINATION OF HUMAN BLOOD TYPES USING IMAGE PROCESSING TECHNIQUES . In Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Biomedical Electronics and Devices - Volume 1: BIODEVICES, (BIOSTEC 2010) ISBN 978-989-674-017-7, pages 69-74. DOI: 10.5220/0002698600690074


in Bibtex Style

@conference{biodevices10,
author={Ana Ferraz and Vítor Carvalho and Patrícia Bandão},
title={AUTOMATIC DETERMINATION OF HUMAN BLOOD TYPES USING IMAGE PROCESSING TECHNIQUES},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Biomedical Electronics and Devices - Volume 1: BIODEVICES, (BIOSTEC 2010)},
year={2010},
pages={69-74},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002698600690074},
isbn={978-989-674-017-7},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Biomedical Electronics and Devices - Volume 1: BIODEVICES, (BIOSTEC 2010)
TI - AUTOMATIC DETERMINATION OF HUMAN BLOOD TYPES USING IMAGE PROCESSING TECHNIQUES
SN - 978-989-674-017-7
AU - Ferraz A.
AU - Carvalho V.
AU - Bandão P.
PY - 2010
SP - 69
EP - 74
DO - 10.5220/0002698600690074