NON-INVASIVE DETERMINATION OF BLOOD COMPONENTS

摘要

A method of estimating an amount of a substance in a bodily fluid from the color of a tissue surface of a subject (20) includes capturing an image including at least a portion-of-interest of the subject and at least a reference portion of a color reference, the image being a digital image of pixels of at least one color, the image including a component value for each pixel for each of the at least one color, obtaining a first value associated with at least one component value corresponding to the portion-of-interest o f the subject, obtaining a second value associated with at least one component value corresponding to the reference portion, and calculating an estimated amount of the substance using the first and second values.