TONGUE BASED DIAGNOSIS SYSTEM USING NI-LABVIEW AND VISION ASSISTANT TOOL

Abstract

The Tongue diagnosis is a vital instrument used in Ayurvedic medicine for assessing a person’s current state of health and for providing a basis for prognosis. Diagnostic technique informs the practitioner or doctor related to the human organs and the body systems. In this paper, different images of diseased tongues and a healthy tongue are analyzed using image processing tools of NI LABVIEW. Based on the variation of color on different portions of the tongue such as top, middle and bottom corresponding to vata, pitta and kapha respectively, standard deviation and mean values are calculated for each of these portions under RGB color plane extraction using NI vision assistant. Finally we present a comparison between standard deviation and mean values of a healthy tongue and a set of tongue images of diseased persons.