Measurement of Haemoglobin Using Digital Photographs of Mucous Membrane of Eye

Abstract

Conjunctival paleness or pallor is a result of low haemoglobin concentration in the human blood that can be caused by conditions such as anemia. Pallor sites of conjunctiva region are cluster segmented for regions of interest based on color using K-mean algorithm and color-plane based feature extraction is performed. Neural network is trained using the processed data of locally collected set of images in controlled conditions of wide demography of patients having taken the needed clinical Haemoglobin test using calorimeter method. Using a regulated set of standard images, the pallor screening system can detect the severity of disease like anemia.