Projects:2020s2-7413 Investigating and Developing Approaches for Accurate Vein Finding for Venepuncture and Cannulation Applications

The process of collecting blood as a sample is called Venepuncture. The clinician needs to implement venepuncture into different patients to collect their blood samples which for the patient health diagnosis to predict or catch any warning signs of different diseases. However, the procedure of venepuncture is still can be treated as art and science, the clinician sometimes finds it nearly impossible to be carried out due to the difficulty of peripheral venous access. Difficult peripheral venous access involves different factors such as skin color, infant's vein used to be small and deep, obesity causes too much lipid in the skin layers. Therefore, different techniques-based methods have been developed to try increasing the possibility of venous access to different kinds of patients.

Introduction

This project is to discuss different techniques that can assist the implantation of venipuncture and cannulation by detecting the possible site for peripheral venous access, developing a system for better clinical guidance for venipuncture and cannulation, composed of hardware plus image processing method based on the knowledge of physical quantities of human tissue, such as the response of hemoglobin to a different wavelength.

Project team

Student, Tsan Sum Lee
Supervisors, Dr.Said Al-Sarawi and Ms. Ginetto Noto