[ITK-users] NLM Pill Image Recognition - Request for Information

[Yaniv, Ziv Rafael (NIH/NLM/LHC) [C]]

Dear colleagues,

Please excuse this slightly off topic mail.

I would like to bring to your attention the following request for information which may be of interest to some in the community.

The National Library of Medicine (NLM) has issued a call for participation in a Pill Image Recognition (PIR) Request for Information (RFI). Unidentified and misidentified prescription pills present challenges for individuals and professionals. Unidentified pills can be found by family members, health professionals, educators, and law enforcement. The nine out of 10 US citizens over age 65 who take more than one prescription pill can be prone to misidentifying those pills. This PIR RFI is a pilot for a forthcoming PIR Challenge whose goal is to develop smart phone apps that individuals can use to take pictures of prescription pills and then search for and retrieve pill images and associated data of likely matches in an NLM database. NLM anticipates that respondents will include professionals and students, individually or in teams, in computer vision and computer graphics working on content-based image retrieval.

Instructions for responding to the RFI are at http://pir.nlm.nih.gov/pilot/instructions.html

The deadline for submissions to this RFI is Friday, May 15, 2015.

Questions and comments are welcome at pir at nlm.nih.gov.

     best regards
          Ziv

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Ziv Yaniv, PhD,
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National Library of Medicine
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