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Investigating Pill Recognition Methods for a New National Library of Medicine Image Dataset

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Advances in Visual Computing (ISVC 2015)

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With the increasing access to pharmaceuticals, chances are that medication administration errors will occur more frequently. On average, individuals above age 65 take at least 14 prescriptions per year. Unfortunately, adverse drug reactions and noncompliance are responsible for 28 % of hospitalizations of the elderly. Correctly identifying pills has become a critical task in patient care and safety. Using the recently released National Library of Medicine (NLM) pill image database, this paper investigates descriptors for pill detection and characterization. We describe efforts in investigating algorithms to segment NLM pills images automatically, and extract several features to assembly pill groups with priors based on FDA recommendations for pill physical attributes. Our contributions toward pill recognition automation are three-fold: we evaluate the 1,000 most common medications in the United States, provide masks and feature matrices for the NLM reference pill images to guarantee reproducibility of results, and discuss strategies to organize data for efficient content-based image retrieval.

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  1. BIDS, University of California, Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA

    Daniela Ushizima

  2. CRD, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA

    Daniela Ushizima

  3. LABVIS, Federal University of Ceara, Fortaleza, CE, 60020-181, Brazil

    Allan Carneiro, Marcelo Souza & Fatima Medeiros

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  1. University of Nevada, Reno, Nevada, USA

    George Bebis

  2. NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, California, USA

    Richard Boyle

  3. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, USA

    Bahram Parvin

  4. Desert Research Institute, Reno, Nevada, USA

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  5. University of Houston, Houston, Texas, USA

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  6. IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, New York, USA

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  7. Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, USA

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  8. Side Effects Software, Santa Monica, California, USA

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  9. The DiVE, Durham, North Carolina, USA

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  10. Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, USA

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  11. Kent State University, Kent, Ohio, USA

    Zhao Ye

  12. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, USA

    Gunther Weber

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Ushizima, D., Carneiro, A., Souza, M., Medeiros, F. (2015). Investigating Pill Recognition Methods for a New National Library of Medicine Image Dataset. In: Bebis, G., et al. Advances in Visual Computing. ISVC 2015. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9475. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-27863-6_38

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