Color Feature-Based Pillbox Image Color Recognition

Abstract

Patients, their families and caregivers routinely examine pills for medication identification. Key pill information includes color, shape, size and pill imprint. The pill can then be identified using an online pill database. This process is time-consuming and error prone, leading researchers to develop techniques for automatic pill identification. Pill color may be the pill feature that contributes most to automatic pill identification. In this research, we investigate features from two color planes: Red, green and blue (RGB), and hue saturation and value (HSV), as well as chromaticity and brightness features. Color-based classification is explored using MatLab over 2140 National Library of Medicine (NLM) Pillbox reference images using 20 feature descriptors. The pill region is extracted using image processing techniques including erosion, dilation and thresholding. Using a leave-one-image-out approach for classifier training/testing, a support vector machine (SVM) classifier yielded an average accuracy over 12 categories as high as 97.90%.

Meeting Name

Proceedings of the 12th International Joint Conference on Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications, VISIGRAPP 2017 (2017: Feb. 27-Mar. 1, Porto, Portugal)

Department(s)

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Second Department

Chemistry

Keywords and Phrases

Computer graphics; Computer vision; Image processing; Pelletizing; Support vector machines; Classifier training; Color recognition; Feature descriptors; Image processing technique; National library of medicines; Pillbox Image; Red, green and blues; Reference image; Color; Support vector machine

International Standard Book Number (ISBN)

978-989-758-225-7

Document Type

Article - Conference proceedings

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Citation

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text

Language(s)

English

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© 2017 SciTePress, All rights reserved.

Publication Date

01 Feb 2017

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