Automated Tablet Quality Assurance and Identification for Hospital Pharmacies

• Autorzy: Chaczko Z. , Kale A.
• Języki publikacji: EN

Abstrakty

EN

The tablet quality checking and identification in hospital pharmacies is done manually and does not use any automated solution. Manual sorting and handling makes this activity laborious and error-prone. This paper describes a low cost solution that is characterised by a small size of the infrastructure involved. Discussed are design and implementation details of Tablet Inspection System based on Machine Vision. The described process uses a dedicated sequence of operation to perform dispensing, scanning and sorting using mini factory setup. Machine Vision System uses a novel Genetic Evolution algorithm. The algorithm provides robust and scalable output. Due to its versatile nature and easy shape recognition ability the approach can be easily adapted to a large variety of medical tablets. The proposed solution attempts to follow the concept of single objective with multiple optima in GA that is designed to scan multiple number of tablets in one cycle of operation.

Słowa kluczowe

EN

hospital pharmacy; content error; genetic algorithm

• Wydawca: Polish Academy of Sciences, Committee of Electronics and Telecommunication
• Czasopismo: International Journal of Electronics and Telecommunications
• Rocznik: 2011
• Tom: Vol. 57, No. 2
• Strony: 153--158
• Opis fizyczny: Bibliogr. 18 poz., il., wykr.

Twórcy

autor

Chaczko Z.

autor

Kale A.

• University of Technology, Sydney, Broadway NSW 2007, Australia,

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