An interface design for blood group detection from gel card images using image processing techniques

Gel blood grouping system is one of the most widely used methods of blood grouping systems. The devices and kits of this system which has also been widely used in our country are imported. In this thesis the gel card reader device and the user interface software has been developed for the gel test reader device which is a part of the gel blood grouping system in order to manufacture the blood group system in our country. Mechanical part of the device is manufactured by Biomekatronik Sağlık Hizmetleri Ltd. Şti. company in their workshops. The interface software developed using C # language. The developed software uses gel test samples which have 6 tubes for the detection of the blood groups. With this software, firstly the captured images of the samples are imported in the program and then the detection of blood group is achieved by using digital image processing techniques. The developed software has been tested by eight different gel test samples. Each of these samples includes one of the eight different blood groups (A Rh (+), A Rh (-), B Rh (+), B Rh (-), AB Rh (+), AB Rh (-) and O Rh (+), OR Rh (-)). The obtained results shown that the developed software can detect the blood groups with a high accuracy rate. Keywords: Blood groups, Gel test method, User interface design