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Upgraded Tongue Imaging Device for Diagnosis,

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light reflection on the until now, tongue diagnosis of clinical application
tongue surface caused by has had limitations due to of the tongue imaging
saliva. Grid guidelines the influence of subjective device, the research team
are offered for frontal factors including the conducted clinical research
and side imaging of the differences in experience related to menstrual pains,
tongue to enable accurate and knowledge of doctors indigestion and chronic
imaging from left to right and external environmental fatigue, and showed the
and front to back of the factors such as lighting. relationship between these
tongue, thereby increasing The K TAS-4000 tongue conditions and tongue
the reproducibility and imaging device provides characteristics.
accuracy of diagnosis. analysis of the quality of The results of the
the tongue as well as the research were published
In addition, the balance color and amount of tongue in leading domestic
status of the tongue coating based on more and overseas journals
A result of diagnosis in imaging device that takes can be analyzed using than 4,000 tongue imaging including ʜEvidence-
Asian medicine such as 3-dimensional digital 3-dimensional imaging data, and enables the Based Contemporary and
pulse diagnosis and tongue images of the tongue for through geometric infor- diagnosis of health status Alternative Medicineʝ
GLDJQRVLV FRXOG EH GL̆HUHQW the diagnosis of health and mation including its color, by measuring bite marks (eCAM) and ʜEuropean
from one acupuncturist to diseases has been developed shape, depth and thickness. on the tongue as well as Journal of Integrative
the other. There are too according to Korea Institute Such symptoms as sleep the thickness, volume and Medicineʝ.
many factors that affect of Oriental Medicine disorder, dyschezia and deviation of the tongue. At present, the research
results of the diagnosis. recently (KIOM). indigestion can be predicted The tongue imaging device team is developing a mobile
Specially, conventional way KIOM has developed using tongue imaging, with divides the color of tongue tongue image acquisition
of tongue diagnosis has tongue imaging device (K much higher accuracy and into four types: white, program, and it plans to
had limitations due to the TAS-4000), capable of reproducibility compared pink, red and purple. The advance it into a mobile-
influence of subjective 3- dimensional imaging to the existing tongue tongue coating analysis based tongue diagnosis
factors including the with high accuracy and diagnosis technology. shows whether the coating system, which will consist
difference in degrees of reproducibility by using Tongue diagnosis, a is thick or thin, and the of big data built using
experience and knowledge indirect lighting, grid diagnosis of health condi- determination of the color tongue image data taken
of a practitioner and guidelines and depth tions and diseases based of the coating, whether it from daily life and support
external environmental camera. on the color and shape of is white or yellow, enables individualized health
factors like lighting and eye The existing device analyzes tongue, is one of the major diagnosis of the cold-heat management.
position for diagnosis and the surface status and diagnostic methods in characteristics in Korean
so on. color of tongue after taking Korean medicine. In Korean medicine. The device also The research team has
Development of an 2-dimensional images medicine, the tongue is a provides the analysis of the made a patent application
integrated system for health using direct lighting. On key organ that indicates strength of bite marks on based on the research
diagnosis through tongue the other hand, the newly the progress of diseases the tongue produced due results, and the relevant
imaging based on Korean developed device applies for it is related to the heart to its swelling or drooping. technology is in the process
Medicine. indirect lighting for tongue and shows the stomach of consideration for ISO
An upgraded tongue imaging to minimize function status. However, To verify the possibility international standard.