Simple method for estimation of hemoglobin in human blood using color analysis

IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 657-662

  Ranganathan, H ^a   Gunasekaran, N ^b  

^a Electronics and Communication Engineering Department   (India)

^b ANNA UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Artificial neural network (ANN) approach; Backpropagation network; Estimation of hemoglobin in human blood

Indexed keywords

BACKPROPAGATION; BLOOD; ESTIMATION; NEURAL NETWORKS;

BACKPROPAGATION NETWORK; COLOR ANALYSIS; CYANMETHEMOGLOBIN METHOD;

HEMOGLOBIN;

HEMOGLOBIN;

ALGORITHM; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; BLOOD; BLOOD ANALYSIS; COLORIMETRY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ALGORITHMS; ANEMIA; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; BLOOD CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; COLORIMETRY; DIAGNOSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; FEMALE; HEMOGLOBINS; HUMANS; MALE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 33750214936     PISSN: 10897771     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TITB.2006.874195     Document Type: Article

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