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Coated Tongue Region Extraction using the Fluorescence Response of the Tongue Coating by Ultraviolet Light Source

설태의 자외선 형광 반응을 이용한 설태 영역 추출

  • 최창열 (상지대학교 컴퓨터정보공학부) ;
  • 이우범 (상지대학교 컴퓨터정보공학부) ;
  • 홍유식 (상지대학교 컴퓨터정보공학부) ;
  • 이상석 (상지대학교 한방의료공학과) ;
  • 남동현 (상지대학교 한의학과)
  • Received : 2012.05.23
  • Accepted : 2012.08.10
  • Published : 2012.08.31
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Abstract

An effective extraction method for extracting a coated tongue is proposed in this paper, which is used as the diagnostic criteria in the tongue diagnosis. Proposed method uses the fluorescence response characteristics of the coated tongue that is occurred by using the ultraviolet light. Specially, this method can solved the previous problems including the issue in the limits of the diagnosis environment and in the objectivity of the diagnosis results. In our method, original tongue image is acquired by using the ultraviolet light, and binarization is performed by thresholding a valley-points in the histogram that corresponds to the color difference of tongue body and tongue coating. Final view image is presented to the oriental doctor, after applying the canny-edge algorithm to the binary image, and edge image is added to the original image. In order to evaluate the performance of the our proposed method, after building a various tongue image, we compared the true region of coated tongue by the oriental doctor's hand with the extracted region by the our method. As a result, the proposed method showed the average 87.87% extraction ratio. The shape of the extracted coated tongue region showed also significantly higher similarity.

본 논문에서는 한방 의료의 설진에서 진단 지표로 활용될 수 있는 효과적인 설태 영역 추출 방법을 제안한다. 제안한 방법은 설태의 자외선 광원에 의한 형광 반응 특성을 이용하여 기존의 설태 추출 방법의 단점으로 지적되었던 진료 환경의 제약성 및 진료 결과의 객관성 부족에 대한 문제점을 해결할 수 있다. 처리 과정으로는 자외선 광원을 사용하여 설진 영상을 획득하고, 설질(Tongue body)과 설태(Tongue coating) 영역의 색차 크기에 상응하는 히스토그램(Histogram) 상의 골-포인트(Valley-points)를 임계 처리하여 이진화(Binarization)를 수행한다. 최종적으로 설진을 위하여 한의사에게 제공되는 진단 영상은 이진 영상에 케니-에지(Canny-Edge) 알고리즘을 사용하여 설태 윤곽 정보를 추출한 후에 환자의 원 혀 영상에 부과하여 제시한다. 제안한 방법의 성능 평가를 위해서는 다양한 혀 영상을 수집하고, 한의사가 수작업으로 설정한 설태 영역을 참영상(True image)으로 하여 제안한 방법으로 추출한 설태 영역과 비교하였다. 그 결과 제안한 방법은 87.87%의 추출률을 나타냈으며, 추출된 설태 영역의 형태 유사도도 높게 나타났다.

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