AI-driven drug pill recognition system: A CNN-based android application for visually impaired and senior citizens
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
As individuals age, challenges such as declining vision and memory can increase the risk of medication errors, particularly among the elderly and visually impaired. To address this issue, this research presents a deep learning-based Android application for accurate and accessible drug pill recognition. The system leverages a contrast-enhanced Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) trained on a diverse pill image dataset, achieving a test accuracy of 98%. Integrated with a REST API, the model enables real-time image classification via a smartphone camera. The application further enhances usability through voice-assisted feedback and visual pill details, promoting autonomy and medication adherence. This AI-driven solution bridges the gap between healthcare and technology, offering a practical tool to reduce medication errors and improve the quality of life for users with visual and cognitive impairments.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it