Development of a Near-Infrared (NIR) forearm subcutaneous vein extraction using deep residual U-Net

• Main Authors: Abdul Kadir, Nuraini Huda, Goh, Chuan Meng, Lim, C. H., Sayed Aluwee, Sayed Ahmad Zikri, Bajuri, Mohd. Nazri, Abdul Wahab, Nur Haliza
• Format: Conference or Workshop Item
• Published: 2023
• Subjects: QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science
• Online Access: http://eprints.utm.my/108184/; http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/5.0111230
• Institution: Universiti Teknologi Malaysia

Impotence to locate the forearm subcutaneous vein leads to multiple intravenous (IV) attempts causing pain and injuries to patients such as bruise or vein damages. Various technologies and techniques were proposed and developed to overcome the multiple IV access problems. The standard techniques use...