Implementation of Tongue Diagnostic Device for Home Health-Care 


Vol. 48,  No. 7, pp. 868-874, Jul.  2023
10.7840/kics.2023.48.7.868


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Tongue diagnosis is a non-invasive method for diagnosing symptoms and diseases in Oriental medicine through observing the shape and color of a tongue. A highly reproducible tongue diagnosis system was developed by photographing the tongue within a limited space. When subjects stick out their tongues in the system, the operator takes pictures and extracts color and geometric information of the surface of the tongue. The medical device for hospitals is bulky and heavy, making it difficult to use at home. For home healthcare, we designed a lightweight device with the same functions. By installing a web cam with a short focal length as front and side cameras, the width, height, depth and weight of the device were reduced to 15.0, 32.4, 37.5 cm and 1.84 kg, so it was movable. The device had the charging power of lighting, and the smartphone to operate the camera and to store the images. Despite capturing images with both the tongue and the color checker, the images excluding the color checker were displayed to the subject in real time and their reproducibility was confirmed. The changes in health status over time will be observed in environments like home or sports facilities through tongue images.

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[IEEE Style]

K. H. Kim, "Implementation of Tongue Diagnostic Device for Home Health-Care," The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences, vol. 48, no. 7, pp. 868-874, 2023. DOI: 10.7840/kics.2023.48.7.868.

[ACM Style]

Keun Ho Kim. 2023. Implementation of Tongue Diagnostic Device for Home Health-Care. The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences, 48, 7, (2023), 868-874. DOI: 10.7840/kics.2023.48.7.868.

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Keun Ho Kim, "Implementation of Tongue Diagnostic Device for Home Health-Care," The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences, vol. 48, no. 7, pp. 868-874, 7. 2023. (https://doi.org/10.7840/kics.2023.48.7.868)
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