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Development and Evaluation of an Indirect Illumination for Tongue Image Acquisition

설 영상 획득을 위한 간접 조명 구현 및 평가

  • Jung, Chang Jin (Medical Engineering R&D Group, Korea Institute of Oriental Medicine) ;
  • Kim, Keun Ho (Medical Engineering R&D Group, Korea Institute of Oriental Medicine) ;
  • Jang, Jun-Su (Medical Engineering R&D Group, Korea Institute of Oriental Medicine) ;
  • Jeon, Young Ju (Medical Engineering R&D Group, Korea Institute of Oriental Medicine)
  • 정창진 (한국한의학연구원 의공학기술개발그룹) ;
  • 김근호 (한국한의학연구원 의공학기술개발그룹) ;
  • 장준수 (한국한의학연구원 의공학기술개발그룹) ;
  • 전영주 (한국한의학연구원 의공학기술개발그룹)
  • Received : 2014.09.19
  • Accepted : 2014.10.29
  • Published : 2014.11.25
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Abstract

The color and shape of the tongue reflect the physiological and clinico-pathological condition of the body. Recently, various tongue image acquisition devices have been developed for accurate diagnosis based on quantitative and objective tongue features. Since a color information is essential for tongue diagnosis, the performance of an illuminator is very important for the tongue image acquisition device. In this study, we developed an indirect illumination, which is possible to improve a homogeneity of light intensities on the tongue surface, and evaluated its performances. In order to realize the indirect illumination (II), a semi-ellipsoidal solid structure (SESS) for the light reflex was located in the system, and two high-brightness white LEDs were placed for illuminating the areas under frontal camera in the SESS. The tongue surface was illuminated by reflected light from the SESS. The light homogeneity induced by three different illuminations including the II was evaluated by calculating coefficient of variation (CV) of illuminance of five regions. The II showed less than 0.01 of CV and the direct illumination (DI) and the direct illumination with a light diffusion plate (DILDP) showed 0.16 and 0.13, respectively. The reflexed pixel ratios of tongue phantom images show 5.76%, 4.22%, 1.79% for the DI, the DILDP and the II, respectively. The homogeneity of a tongue phantom was evaluated by calculating CV of mean pixel values of six different tongue regions, and showed less than 0.06 in the II. If the II technique apply to tongue diagnosis system, it is expected to improve diagnostic accuracy in clinic.

혀의 색상 및 형태는 신체의 생리적이고 임상 병리적인 상태를 반영한다. 최근에는 정량적이고 객관화된 설 진단을 위해 다양한 설 영상 측정 장치가 개발되고 있다. 설 진단의 대부분은 혀의 색상 정보를 활용하기 때문에 설 영상 획득 장치에서 조명환경의 성능은 매우 중요하다. 본 연구에서는 좁은 시스템 내부 구조에서 설 표면에 조명이 고르게 비춰질 수 있도록 간접조명을 고안하였고, 그 성능을 평가하였다. 간접 조명환경 구현을 위해 타원체 형태의 반사 구조를 시스템 내부에 위치시키고, 타원체 내부에 높은 조도의 LED 두 개를 통해 정면 카메라 아래 방향으로 빛을 조사하도록 배치시켰다. 혀 위치 영역에는 반사 구조에 의해 반사된 빛만이 조사될 수 있도록 하였다. 조명의 균질도는 5개 영역에서 밝기를 측정하여 변동계수로 평가하였고, 직접조명과 확산판조명에서 각각 0.16, 0.13으로 나타난 반면 간접조명에서는 0.01미만으로 나타났다. 혀 모형을 통해 조명에 의한 빛 반사 영역의 비율을 계산한 결과는 직접조명, 확산판조명, 간접조명에서 각각 5.76%, 4.22%, 1.79%로 나타났다. 혀 모형을 측정한 영상에서 6영역의 변동계수를 계산해 색상 균질도를 평가한 결과는 간접조명에서 0.06 미만으로 가장 우수한 것으로 나타났다. 본 논문에서 구현한 조명방식을 설진 시스템에 적용하여 진단 지표 측정의 재현성 및 반복성이 향상될 것으로 기대된다.

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