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Automated quality control inspection of geometric tip defects in medical needle manufacturing

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SPRINGER LONDON LTD
DOI: 10.1007/s00170-022-10249-5

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Automatic quality inspection; Manufacturing variation; Synthetic image generation; Uncertainty quantification; Ordinal logistic regression

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  1. CAUL
  2. Industrial Transformation Research Hub for Advanced Manufacturing of Medical Devices [IH150100024]

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This article introduces a research work on the quality of IVF needles. By integrating interdisciplinary techniques and using virtual datasets and model analysis, a new solution is proposed to investigate and quantify the uncertainty in the quality standard of IVF needles.
The manufacture of In Vitro Fertilization (IVF) needles is subject to the most stringent quality demands. This makes automated inspection challenging due to difficulty in reliably classifying conforming and non-conforming (defective) products due to factors including multidimensional variation of their tip geometry and the lack of an explicit quality standard. In addition, developing an IVF needle image dataset, which broadly contains the visual characteristics of qualified and defective products, is difficult without commissioning large and costly production runs. The most important original contribution of this work is a new solution to investigate and quantify the uncertainty in the quality standard of IVF needles by integrating inter-disciplinary techniques. This work utilizes a low-cost, virtual dataset of synthetic images, generated by the automated photo-realistic rendering of a three-dimensional (3D) parametric model to simulate manufacturing variation. Then, the unknown numerical (critical) quality thresholds are obtained by estimating the relationship between quality response and measurement predictors using an Ordinal Logistic Regression (OLR) algorithm on the synthetic images. The fitted models exhibited increased overall predictive accuracy of up to 11.02% than the machine learning models (available in MATLAB) and could provide objective guidance on classifying specific quality aspects of a product.

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