A Proposal for Automatic Diabetes Food Information Display with Mobile Phone

DOI

10.2991/citcs.2012.83How to use a DOI?

Keywords

dietary assessment; smart mobile phone; image analysis; medical nutrition therapy; device

Abstract

Dietary treatment is the basic therapy for diabetes, but how to do the right food intake is the biggest discouraging problem. We present a proposal for mobile phone diabetes food information display which can help determine the food composition and calories automatically from the clinical point of view with the mature communication technology. We analyzed the composite of the device, especially the key technical method, which is digital image recognition, three-dimensional image analysis, standard tables of food composition database and composite meals energy calculation auxiliary knowledge base. The device has technical feasibility and broad application prospects. It's combination of dietary treatment with smart mobile technology, which can provide great support to solve the problem of food energy assessment and analysis, not only for the single-ingredient food but also the composite meals. The proposal also provides further thinking about how to improve adherence to medical nutrition treatment in diabetes.

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© 2012, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Jing-sheng Hu
AU  - Kun Peng
AU  - Mei-kui Zhang
AU  - Ya-bin Li
AU  - Chen Jiang
PY  - 2012/11
DA  - 2012/11
TI  - A Proposal for Automatic Diabetes Food Information Display with Mobile Phone
BT  - Proceedings of the 2012 National Conference on Information Technology and Computer Science
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 315
EP  - 318
SN  - 1951-6851
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/citcs.2012.83
DO  - 10.2991/citcs.2012.83
ID  - Hu2012/11
ER  -