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The pathophysiological mechanism by which anemia can affect facial characteristics, such as membrane pallor, has been proven to detect anemia with the help of deep learning technology. The quick prediction method for the patient in the emergency department is important to screen the anemic state and judge the necessity of blood transfusion treatment.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Method<\/jats:title><jats:p>We trained a deep learning system to predict anemia using videos of 316 patients. All the videos were taken with the same portable pad in the ambient environment of the emergency department. The video extraction and face recognition methods were used to highlight the facial area for analysis. Accuracy and area under the curve were used to assess the performance of the machine learning system at the image level and the patient level.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Results<\/jats:title><jats:p>Three tasks were applied for performance evaluation. The objective of Task 1 was to predict patients' anemic states [hemoglobin (Hb) &amp;lt;13 g\/dl in men and Hb &amp;lt;12 g\/dl in women]. The accuracy of the image level was 82.37%, the area under the curve (AUC) of the image level was 0.84, the accuracy of the patient level was 84.02%, the sensitivity of the patient level was 92.59%, and the specificity of the patient level was 69.23%. The objective of Task 2 was to predict mild anemia (Hb &amp;lt;9 g\/dl). The accuracy of the image level was 68.37%, the AUC of the image level was 0.69, the accuracy of the patient level was 70.58%, the sensitivity was 73.52%, and the specificity was 67.64%. The aim of task 3 was to predict severe anemia (Hb &amp;lt;7 g\/dl). The accuracy of the image level was 74.01%, the AUC of the image level was 0.82, the accuracy of the patient level was 68.42%, the sensitivity was 61.53%, and the specificity was 83.33%.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Conclusion<\/jats:title><jats:p>The machine learning system could quickly and accurately predict the anemia of patients in the emergency department and aid in the treatment decision for urgent blood transfusion. 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