A rapid quantitative determination method of Luteinizing hormone with gold immunochromatographic strip

Measurement of Luteinizing hormone (LH) levels is of great importance in guidance for pregnancy, diagnosis of ovarian diseases and evaluation of clinical effect. Gold immunochromatographic strip(GICS) assay is a rapid, simple, low-costs, and on-site technology. Quantitative detection of GICS has advantage over the traditional qualitative or semi-quantitative strip assay. In this paper, we developed a novel quantitative detection method for GICS based on smart-phone. First, smart-phone was used to acquire GICS image. Then, we applied the canny edge detection operator to extract the reading window from GICS image, and the fuzzy c-means (FCM) clustering algorithm to locate the test and control lines in the reading window. In order to reduce environmental interference, luminance compensation based on color constancy algorithms was applied. Finally, the property of the developed quantitative method is demonstrated by the detection of LH sample and clinical serum sample. Experimental results revealed that this method could achieve a low detection limit of 1.0 mIU/mL in a linear range from 1.0 to 125.0 mIU/mL. Furthermore, the proposed method could be used for the determination of clinical serum samples and its corresponding correlation coefficients were 0.964. Results showed that this novel method could be an effective tool for the rapid quantitative determination of LH.

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