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KMID : 1123920050190051437
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Korean Journal of Oriental Physiology and Pathology
2005 Volume.19 No. 5 p.1437 ~ p.1442
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Color Characteristic on Tongue Image of Malignant Neoplasm Patients
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Eo Yun-Hye
Kim Ji-Eun
Park Kyung-Mo
Yoo Hwa-Seung
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Abstract
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Tongue Diagnosis is the important traditional oriental medical diagnosis method that observes not only the general physiological state but also some kinds of disease. However, manual tongue diagnosis is much influenced by surrounding illumination. Therefore, Digital Tongue Inspection System(DigiTis) is needed for the quantification of objective tongue information, In this research, Tongue images of 98 malignant Neoplasm patients and 34 normal persons were collected by Digital Tongue Inspection System. Statistical analysis of tongue images and patient data indicates that cancer group has more blue-purple components in tongue body(舌質) and yellow components in tongue coating than normal group. Also, there are a lot of rose-pink components in the cancer group of second stage and blue-purple components in the cancer group of third or fourth stage. Our study shows that tongue image is a useful index for distinction between disease and health. Furthermore we need more extended research through the additional sampling and various disease.
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KEYWORD
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tongue diagnosis, cancer, digital tongue inspection system
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