Coated tongue division and extracting method for colored digital photo of tongue

Abstract

The related color image processing technology for medical diagnosis comprises: pre-processing to remove reflecting points, merging the image to substitute the position with color same as the near position; cutting image with Ostu threshold value to classify the tongue and coated tongue; in color space, cutting the coated tongue with Ostu threshold value to classify the thick coated tongue and the thin; finally, marking with different colors. This invention has fine cutting result benefit to doctor decision.

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technical field [0001] The invention relates to a method for segmenting and extracting tongue fur from a color digital photo of tongue for tongue diagnosis in traditional Chinese medicine, and belongs to the fields of color image processing and image analysis and understanding. Background technique [0002] In the tongue diagnosis of TCM diagnostic methods, the thickness, color, area occupied and distribution position of the tongue coating on the human tongue are very important parameters. In actual diagnosis, doctors often make judgments based on their own experience, which often leads to inconsistencies in the diagnosis that may be obtained when the same patient is diagnosed by several doctors. Every doctor relies on his own judgment and diagnosis subjectively, so the standard of tongue diagnosis is very vague. In order to solve this problem, image processing technology is applied to the analysis of tongue coating, which provides reference parameters for doctors during to...

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[0007] (3) Algorithms rely too much on objective data, and some ignore the subjective feelings of doctors

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