Cognitive Engineering for Next Generation Computing

3HemoSmart: A Non-Invasive Device and Mobile App for Anemia Detection

J.A.D.C.A. Jayakody*, E.A.G.A. Edirisinghe^† and S.Lokuliyana^‡

Department of Computer Systems Engineering, Sri Lanka Institute of Information Technology, Malabe, Sri Lanka

Abstract

The Hemoglobin concentration in human blood is an important substance to health condition determination. With the results which are obtained from Hemoglobin test, a condition which is called as Anemia (a low level of Hemoglobin) can be revealed. Traditionally the Hemoglobin test is done using blood samples which are taken using needles. The non-invasive Hemoglobin level detection system, discussed in this paper, describes a better idea about the hemoglobin concentration in the human blood. The images of the fingertip of the different hemoglobin level patients which is taken using a camera is used to develop the neural network-based algorithm. The pre-mentioned algorithm is used in the developed non-invasive device to display the Hemoglobin level. Before doing the above procedure, an account is created in the mobile app and a questionnaire is given to answer by the patient. Finally, both the results which are obtained from the mobile app and the device are run through a machine learning algorithm to get the final output. According to the final result patient would be able to detect anemia at an early stage.

Keywords: Hemoglobin, anemia, non-invasive, machine learning, neural network

3.1 Introduction

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