<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>Drawing blood and injecting drugs are common medical procedures, for which accurate identification of veins is needed to avoid causing unnecessary pain. In this paper, we propose a low-cost system for the detection of veins. The system emits near-infrared radiation from four light-emitting diodes (LEDs), with a charge-coupled device (CCD) camera located in the middle of the LEDs. The camera captures an image of the palm of the hand. A series of digital image-processing techniques, ranging from image enhancement and increased contrast to isolation using a threshold limit based on statistical properties, are applied to effectively isolate the veins from the rest of the image.</p></abstract>

Drawing blood and injecting drugs are common medical procedures, for which accurate identification of veins is needed to avoid causing unnecessary pain. In this paper, we propose a low-cost system for the detection of veins. The system emits near-infrared radiation from four light-emitting diodes (LEDs), with a charge-coupled device (CCD) camera located in the middle of the LEDs. The camera captures an image of the palm of the hand. A series of digital image-processing techniques, ranging from image enhancement and increased contrast to isolation using a threshold limit based on statistical properties, are applied to effectively isolate the veins from the rest of the image.

Low cost blood vein detection system based on near-infrared LEDs and image-processing techniques

Department of Medical Instrumentation Techniques Engineering

Polish Journal of Medical Physics and Engineering

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Drawing blood and injecting drugs are common medical procedures, for which accurate identification of veins is needed to avoid causing unnecessary pain. In...

Low cost blood vein detection system based on near-infrared LEDs and image-processing techniques

Published Online: Jun 25, 2020

Page range: 61 - 67

Received: Oct 30, 2019

Accepted: Mar 11, 2020

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/pjmpe-2020-0007

Keywords
NIR LEDs, CCD camera, palm vein, Wiener filter, CLAHE

© 2020 Mohammed J. Alwazzan, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Low cost blood vein detection system based on near-infrared LEDs and image-processing techniques

Published Online: Jun 25, 2020

Page range: 61 - 67

Received: Oct 30, 2019

Accepted: Mar 11, 2020

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/pjmpe-2020-0007

KeywordsNIR LEDs, CCD camera, palm vein, Wiener filter, CLAHE

© 2020 Mohammed J. Alwazzan, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Keywords
NIR LEDs, CCD camera, palm vein, Wiener filter, CLAHE