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http://dx.doi.org/10.6109/jkiice.2015.19.2.428

A development of a Digital tongue diagnosis system using the tongue color analysis of the each taste region  

Choi, Min (Department of Information and Communications Engineering, Daejeon University)
Yang, Dong-Min (Department of Information and Communications Engineering, Daejeon University)
Lee, Kyu-Won (Department of Information and Communications Engineering, Daejeon University)
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Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering / v.19, no.2, 2015 , pp. 428-434 More about this Journal
Abstract
A new tongue examination model by using color analysis according to the taste division of tongue. The proposed system consists of a tongue image acquisition in a predefined template, taste region segmentation, color distribution analysis and abnormality decision of tongue by color analysis using Hue-Saturation histograms and the part of a mobile application service. We divided 4 basic taste(bitter, sweet, salty and sour) regions and performed color distribution analysis targeting each region under HSI(Hue Saturation Intensity) color model. To minimize the influence of illumination, the histograms of H and S components only except U are utilized. Using the analyzed results, the abnormality is discriminated by the criteria of the histogram range of normal tongues. Finally, a self tongue diagnosis system which can be used anytime and anywhere on mobile environment.
Keywords
Tongue diagnosis; Color analysis; HSI; Mobile environment; etc;
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