BibTeX:

@article{IJIRSTV3I1031,
     title={Enhanced Center of Mass Technique for Detection of Missing & Broken Pharmaceutical Drugs},
     author={Shilpa and Arun Bhatia},
     journal={International Journal for Innovative Research in Science & Technology},
     volume={3},
     number={1},
     pages={37--42},
     year={},
     url={http://www.ijirst.org/articles/IJIRSTV3I1031.pdf},
     publisher={IJIRST (International Journal for Innovative Research in Science & Technology)},
}

Medication has become more significant in everyone’s life people are affected by many diseases. There are certain diseases which cannot be cured without medication. A vast amount of different pharmaceutical products that is tablets and capsules are produced, recommended and consumed everyday worldwide to cure the disease. During production there may be damages like breakage, cracks exist in the tablets or capsules. There may be side-effect of these defected drugs when consumed. So these medicines should be properly checked for any kind of damage before being sold to the consumers. Since large amount of medicines are produced every day so manual inspection of these medicines is very challenging task and it consume more time. Therefore, a system is required to make this process automated. So, this paper proposed a method to inspect damaged and missing tablets with Centre of Mass (COM) edge detection. This method suggests finding edges of tablets by knowing their Centre. The no of capsules in the blister are calculated by Centre of Mass (COM) edge detection method.

Centre of Mass, Pharmaceutical Drugs, Capsules, Broken tablets, Missing Tablets