Intravenous bag monitoring with Convolutional Neural Networks

Abstract: Drip bags are used in hospital environments to administerdrugs and nutrition to patients. Ensuring that they are usedcorrectly and are refilled in time are important for the safetyof patients. This study examines the use of a ConvolutionalNeural Network (CNN) to monitor the fluid levels of drip bagsvia image recognition to potentially form the base of an earlywarning system, and assisting in making medical care moreefficient. Videos of drip bags were recorded as they wereemptying their contents in a controlled environment and fromdifferent angles. A CNN was built to analyze the recordeddata in order to predict a bags fluid level with a 5% intervalprecision from a given image. The results show that the CNNused performs poorly when monitoring fluid levels in dripbags.