Augmented Reality: Real-Time Information Concerning Medication Consumed by a Patient.

Journal: Studies in health technology and informatics
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Abstract

This paper describes a mobile prototype capable of recognizing characters from a photograph of a medication package. The prototype was built to work on the iOS platform and was developed using Objective-C and C programming languages. The prototype, capable of recognizing text out of an image, included image processing algorithms, text processing algorithms, and techniques to search and handle information from a database. This prototype is presented as an option for capturing reliable and validated information by using new technologies available to the general population.

Authors

  • Gloria Diodati
    Departamento de Informática en Salud, Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires, Argentina.
  • Adrián Gómez
    Departamento de Informática en Salud, Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires, Argentina.
  • Marcela Martínez
    Departamento de Informática en Salud, Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires, Argentina.
  • Daniel Luna
    Departamento de Informática en Salud, Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires, Argentina.
  • Fernán González Bernaldo de Quiros
    Departamento de Informática en Salud, Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires, Argentina.