Home // eTELEMED 2020, The Twelfth International Conference on eHealth, Telemedicine, and Social Medicine // View article

Near-Infrared Mobile Imaging Systems for e-Health

Authors:
Hüseyin Aşkın Erdem
Işıl Erdem
Semih Utku

Keywords: image processing; near-infrared light; spectroscopy; e-health; virtual pre-diagnosis environment.

Abstract:
The evaluation of the methods used in image processing techniques with new perspectives has enabled the development of applications to address a wide range of usage areas. One of these perspectives brought to image processing is spectroscopy. Spectroscopy is a method based on obtaining information about the molecular structure of a substance as a result of its interaction with electromagnetic radiation (light photons). In this study, the interaction of haemoglobin in the blood vein structure with near-infrared light photons is utilized. With this interaction, superficial veins can be detected. The results obtained in this study are used to create a system which presents e-health measurements to the user through virtual environment. The system is created in the form of a mobile e-health application via smart devices or tablets. The data obtained by the near-infrared camera is passed through various image processing filters and stages as the software part of the study. In this way, vein structures are obtained. New images will be taken from the same veins of the user at certain time periods. The images taken at different periods will provide information to the user whether these veins have any problems with blood flow. This information will also be shared with the doctor. This procedure is aimed to create a pre-diagnosis data with the calculated mobile measurements.

Pages: 80 to 84

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2020

Publication date: March 22, 2020

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4359

ISBN: 978-1-61208-763-4

Location: Valencia, Spain

Dates: from November 21, 2020 to November 25, 2020