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Detection of Tongue Area using Active Contour Model

능동 윤곽선 모델을 이용한 혀 영역의 검출

  • 한영환 (상지대학교 컴퓨터정보공학부)
  • Received : 2016.05.10
  • Accepted : 2016.05.31
  • Published : 2016.05.31
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Abstract

In this paper, we apply limited area mask operation and active contour model to accurately detect tongue area outline in tongue diagnosis system. To accurately analyze the properties of the tongue, first, the tongue area to be detected. Therefore an effective segmentation method for detecting the edge of tongue is very important. It experimented with tongue image DB consists of 20~30 students 30 people. Experiments on real tongue image show the good performance of this method. Experimental results show that the proposed method extracts object boundaries more accurately than existing methods without mask operation.

본 논문에서는 설진시스템에서 혀 영역의 윤곽선을 정확하게 검출하기 위해 영역제한 마스크 연산과 능동 윤곽선 모델을 적용한다. 혀의 특징을 정확하게 분석하기 위하여 먼저, 혀 영역이 검출되어야 한다. 그러므로 혀 영역의 에지를 검출하기 위한 효율적인 분할 방법은 매우 중요하다. 20~30대 학생 30명으로 구성된 혀 영상 DB로 실험하였다. 실제 혀 영상에서의 실험은 좋은 결과를 보였다. 실험 결과, 제안된 방법이 마스크 연산을 사용하지 않는 방법에 비해 더 정확하게 혀 영역의 윤곽선을 추출하는 것을 확인할 수 있었다.

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