Paper Info
Title
Camera on Vessel: A Camera-Based System to Measure Change in Water Volume in a Drinking Glass
Abstract
A major problem related to chronic health is patients' compliance with new lifestyle changes, medical prescriptions, recommendations, or restrictions. Heart-failure and hemodialysis patients are usually placed on fluid restrictions due to their hemodynamic status. A holistic approach to managing fluid imbalance will incorporate the monitoring of salt-water intake, body-fluid retention, and fluid excretion in order to provide effective intervention at an early stage. Such an approach creates a need to develop a smart device that can monitor the drinking activities of the patient. This paper employs an empirical approach to infer the real water level in a conically shapped glass and the volume difference due to changes in water level. The method uses a low-resolution miniaturized camera to obtain images using an Arduino microcontroller. The images are processed in MATLAB. Conventional segmentation techniques (such as a Sobel filter to obtain a binary image) are applied to extract the level gradient, and an ellipsoidal fitting helps to estimate the size of the cup. The fitting (using least-squares criterion) between derived measurements in pixel and the real measurements shows a low covariance between the estimated measurement and the mean. The correlation between the estimated results to ground truth produced a variation of 3% from the mean.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.3390/s150923847
SENSORS
Keywords
Field
DocType
fluid level measurement,fluid monitoring,fluid imbalance,camera vision,chronic patients
Computer vision,Smart device,MATLAB,Segmentation,Binary image,Sobel operator,Ground truth,Pixel,Artificial intelligence,Engineering,Covariance
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
15
9.0
1424-8220
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
3
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Idowu Ayoola1163.76
Wei Chen29639.08
l m g feijs3217.21