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Abstract | ||
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The costs associated with the management of healthcare systems have been subject to continuous scrutiny for some time now, with a view to reducing them without affecting the quality as perceived by final users. A number of different solutions have arisen based on centralisation of healthcare services and investments in Information Technology (IT). One such example is centralised management of pharmaceuticals among a group of hospitals which is then incorporated into the different steps of the automation supply chain. This paper focuses on a new picking workstation available for insertion in automated pharmaceutical distribution centres and which is capable of replacing manual workstations and bringing about improvements in working time. The workstation described uses a sophisticated computer vision algorithm to allow picking of very diverse and complex objects randomly available on a belt or in bins. The algorithm exploits state-of-the-art feature descriptors for an approach that is robust against occlusions and distracting objects, and invariant to scale, rotation or illumination changes. Finally, the performance of the designed picking workstation is tested in a large experimentation focused on the management of pharmaceutical items. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
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2013 | 10.1016/j.cie.2012.11.004 | Computers & Industrial Engineering |
Keywords | Field | DocType |
new picking workstation,information technology,healthcare system,sophisticated computer vision algorithm,different solution,pharmaceutical item,healthcare application,automated picking workstation,healthcare service,different step,automated pharmaceutical distribution centre,centralised management,pharmaceuticals,computer vision | Health care,Centralisation,Working time,Information technology,Workstation,Automation,Exploit,Supply chain,Engineering,Operations management | Journal |
Volume | Issue | ISSN |
64 | 2 | 0360-8352 |
Citations | PageRank | References |
0 | 0.34 | 17 |
Authors | ||
5 | ||
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Paolo Piccinini | 1 | 71 | 5.14 |
| Rita Gamberini | 2 | 22 | 3.53 |
| Andrea Prati | 3 | 319 | 28.80 |
| Bianca Rimini | 4 | 22 | 4.19 |
| Rita Cucchiara | 5 | 4174 | 300.55 |