Software helps to choose the right medicine to drink

Choosing the right medicine to take in a wide range of colorful, shape, size pills is not a simple thing.

To avoid the misuse of drugs, especially in the hospital, Jesus Caban of the US National Institutes of Health and colleagues developed a software that allows distinguishing drugs with images from cameras.

Websites like Drugs.com or WebMD can help you differentiate drugs, but you have to type the description of the drug on the site, making you spend a lot of time.

Caban's software automatically saves the shape, color and text markings on the tablet through the camera image taken by the camera, and screened the drug in less than 1 second, with an accuracy of up to 91 % In the future, the accuracy of this software will be enhanced when the system can identify more drugs. This software can be used in smartphones for indoor use.