Development of the digital tongue inspection system with image analysis

Author

Jang, J.H. ; Kim, J.E. ; Park, K.M. ; Park, S.O. ; Chang, Y.S. ; Kim, B.Y.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Kangwon Univ., Chuncheon, South Korea

Volume

2

fYear

2002

fDate

2002

Firstpage

1033

Abstract

In oriental medicine, the color and shape of the tongue gives much physiological information about the human body, and many oriental medical doctors have diagnosed patient´s diseases using these information. This paper shows a Digital Tongue Inspection System that has been developed that consists of the implemented hardware part for tongue image acquisition, the image processing part that includes color interpolation, an edge detection algorithm for tongue area separation and tongue color detection algorithm and a database and user interface system for archiving and managing the acquired tongue images.

Keywords

biological organs; biomedical optical imaging; diseases; edge detection; graphical user interfaces; image colour analysis; interpolation; medical image processing; color interpolation; digital tongue inspection system; edge detection algorithm; human body physiological information; image analysis; image archiving; image managing; medical diagnostic imaging; oriental medicine; tongue area separation; tongue color detection algorithm; user interface system; Biomedical imaging; Diseases; Humans; Image analysis; Image color analysis; Image edge detection; Inspection; Medical diagnostic imaging; Shape; Tongue;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Engineering in Medicine and Biology, 2002. 24th Annual Conference and the Annual Fall Meeting of the Biomedical Engineering Society EMBS/BMES Conference, 2002. Proceedings of the Second Joint

ISSN

1094-687X

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7612-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IEMBS.2002.1106262

Filename

1106262