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Automatic Tongue Diagnosis System

The core of diagnosis in Chinese Medicine is ¡§pattern identification/syndrome differentiation and treatment¡¨ with inspection, listening and smelling examination, inquiry, and palpation as the bases. Tongue diagnosis tops the four diagnoses and hence is crucial to the inspection diagnosis in Chinese Medicine. Clinically, doctors mostly rely on their own knowledge and experience when determining major lesions of a patient by observing the coloration, overall modalities, and volume of salivary on different parts of the tongue. As a result, the diagnosis tends to be limited by knowledge, experience, train of thought, and diagnostic techniques.The subjective determination is likely to be affected by the doctor¡¦s color sensitivity and interpretation.Different doctors may come to drastically different judgments on the same tongue presentation with little overlap. Therefore, it is important to develop scientific methods that can help doctors diagnose based on standardized differentiation procedures and render reliable diagnoses in order to enhance the clinical application value of Chinese Medicine.The computerized automatic capture of characteristics shown on the images of the surface and the back of the tongue comprises breakup of the tongue image and capture of the tongue characteristics.The original tongue images first go through HSI color space conversion, detection of the control points inside and outside the surface of the tongue, curve smoothness modification and active contour model to capture images of the tongue. After that, the tongue shape, tongue fur, tongue body, and body fluid are captured from the breakup image of the tongue.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:NSYSU/oai:NSYSU:etd-0728109-142251
Date28 July 2009
CreatorsHsu, Cheng-chun
ContributorsWei-chih Hsu, Lun-chien Lo, Chung-Nan Lee, John Y. Chiang
PublisherNSYSU
Source SetsNSYSU Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Archive
LanguageCholon
Detected LanguageEnglish
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Sourcehttp://etd.lib.nsysu.edu.tw/ETD-db/ETD-search/view_etd?URN=etd-0728109-142251
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