A new tongue diagnosis application on Android platform

Abstract

Tongue diagnosis plays an important role in Traditional Chinese Medicine. However, due to its experience-based nature, traditional tongue diagnosis has to be implemented by specialists and there is few computerized tongue diagnosis method. In this paper, we proposed a novel tongue diagnosis method developed on the basis of Java language for Android platform. It can obtain tongue outline accurately with an optimized Canny method, then extract tongue features within tongue region and finally make diagnosis with extracted features and display the result on screen. The application enables the realization of self-service and portable detection.