Point-of-care image-based quantitative urinalysis with commercial reagent strips: Design and clinical evaluation. 2024

Damian Tohl, and Anh Tran Tam Pham, and Jordan Li, and Youhong Tang
Australia-China Joint Research Centre for Personal Health Technologies, Medical Device Research Institute, College of Science and Engineering, Flinders University, South Australia 5042, Australia.

Urinalysis is a useful test as an indicator of health or disease and as such, is a part of routine health screening. Urinalysis can be undertaken in many ways, one of which is reagent strips used in the general evaluation of health and to aid in the diagnosis and monitoring of kidney disease. To be effective, the test must be performed properly, and the results interpreted correctly. However, different light conditions and colour perception can vary between users leading to ambiguous readings. This has led to camera devices being used to capture and generate the estimated biomarker concentrations, but image colour can be affected by variations in illumination and inbuilt image processing. Therefore, a new portable device with embedded image processing techniques is presented in this study to provide quantitative measurements that are invariant to changes in illumination. The device includes a novel calibration process and uses the ratio of RGB values to compensate for variations in illumination across an image and improve the accuracy of quantitative measurements. Results show that the proposed calibration method gives consistent homogeneous illumination across the whole image. Comparisons against other existing methods and clinical results show good performance with a correlation to the clinical values. The proposed device can be used for point-of-care testing to provide reliable results consistent with clinical values.

UI MeSH Term Description Entries
D007091 Image Processing, Computer-Assisted A technique of inputting two-dimensional or three-dimensional images into a computer and then enhancing or analyzing the imagery into a form that is more useful to the human observer. Biomedical Image Processing,Computer-Assisted Image Processing,Digital Image Processing,Image Analysis, Computer-Assisted,Image Reconstruction,Medical Image Processing,Analysis, Computer-Assisted Image,Computer-Assisted Image Analysis,Computer Assisted Image Analysis,Computer Assisted Image Processing,Computer-Assisted Image Analyses,Image Analyses, Computer-Assisted,Image Analysis, Computer Assisted,Image Processing, Biomedical,Image Processing, Computer Assisted,Image Processing, Digital,Image Processing, Medical,Image Processings, Medical,Image Reconstructions,Medical Image Processings,Processing, Biomedical Image,Processing, Digital Image,Processing, Medical Image,Processings, Digital Image,Processings, Medical Image,Reconstruction, Image,Reconstructions, Image
D011934 Reagent Strips Narrow pieces of material impregnated or covered with a substance used to produce a chemical reaction. The strips are used in detecting, measuring, producing, etc., other substances. (From Dorland, 28th ed) Reagent Strip,Strip, Reagent,Strips, Reagent
D016482 Urinalysis Examination of urine by chemical, physical, or microscopic means. Routine urinalysis usually includes performing chemical screening tests, determining specific gravity, observing any unusual color or odor, screening for bacteriuria, and examining the sediment microscopically. Urinalyses
D019095 Point-of-Care Systems Laboratory and other services provided to patients at the bedside. These include diagnostic and laboratory testing using automated information entry. Bedside Computing,Point of Care Technology,Bedside Technology,Point-of-Care,Bedside Technologies,Computing, Bedside,Point of Care,Point of Care Systems,Point-of-Care System,Systems, Point-of-Care,Technologies, Bedside,Technology, Bedside

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