IRANIAN JOURNAL OF ELECTRICAL AND ELECTRONIC ENGINEERING

en BiliBin: An Intelligent Mobile Phone-based Platform to Monitor Newborn Jaundice 4-Biomedical Systems Biomedical Systems Research Paper Research Paper Using mobile phones for medical applications are proliferating due to high-quality embedded sensors. Jaundice, a yellow discoloration of the skin caused by excess bilirubin, is a prevalent physiological problem in newborns. While moderate amounts of bilirubin are safe in healthy newborns, extreme levels are fatal and cause devastating and irreversible brain damage. Accurate tests to measure jaundice require a blood draw or dedicated clinical devices facing difficulty where clinical technology is unavailable. This paper presents a smartphone-based screening tool to detect neonatal hyperbilirubinemia caused by the high bilirubin production rate. A machine learning regression model is trained on a pretty large dataset of images, including 446 samples, taken from newborns' sternum skin in four medical centers in Iran. The learned model is then used to estimate the level of bilirubin. Experimental results show a mean absolute error of 1.807 mg/dl and a correlation of 0.701 between predicted bilirubin by the proposed method and the TSB values as ground truth. Health Sensing, Image Processing, Internet of Things, Machine Learning, Neonatal Jaundice. 127 140 http://ijeee.iust.ac.ir/browse.php?a_code=A-10-5254-1&slc_lang=en&sid=1 Eisa Zarepour zarepour@iust.ac.ir 1800319475328460014283 1800319475328460014283 Yes Assistant Professor in the School of Computer Engineering at Iran University of Science and Technology Mohammad Reza Mohammadi mrmohammadi@iust.ac.ir 1800319475328460014284 1800319475328460014284 No Assistant Professor in the School of Computer Engineering at Iran University of Science and Technology. Morteza Zakeri-Nasrabadi zakeri@comp.iust.ac.ir 1800319475328460014285 1800319475328460014285 No Ph.D. graduate from the School of Computer Engineering at Iran University of Science and Technology Sara Aein aeinsara@yahoo.com 1800319475328460014286 1800319475328460014286 No M.Sc. graduate from the School of Computer Engineering at Iran University of Science and Technology. Razieh Sangsari raz3532@yahoo.com 1800319475328460014287 1800319475328460014287 No Children Medical Center, Tehran University of Medical Sciences. And also, associate Professor in the School of Medicine at Tehran University of Medical Sciences Leila Taheri taheri.leila@ymail.com 1800319475328460014288 1800319475328460014288 No Children Medical Center, Tehran University of Medical Sciences. And also, faculty member of Nursing and Midwifery College at Qom University of Medical Sciences. Mojtaba Akbari akbarimojtaba102@gmail.com 1800319475328460014289 1800319475328460014289 No Children Medical Center, Tehran University of Medical Sciences. Ali Zabihallahpour mebontech@gmail.com 1800319475328460014290 1800319475328460014290 No M.Sc. graduate from the School of Computer Engineering at Iran University of Science and Technology.