Facial Complexion Acquisition and Recognition System for Clinical Diagnosis in Traditional Chinese Medicine

This paper introduces a standard acquisition environment and a recognition method for clinical facial complexional diagnosis in traditional Chinese medicine (TCM). Firstly, collected the information of facial complexion in an environment with different artificial light source, the color value of face was extracted and compared with diagnostic conclusion from clinical experts in natural light environment. Experiment results show that the light emitting diode (LED) met the requirement of acquisition environment well. Then, based on the theory of TCM, five-color classification of observational scale in complexion diagnosis was defined, an automatic analysis system was developed for assistant facial complexion-based diagnosis, which standardized the facial complexion-based and avoids depending on the physicianpsilas experience and environment. This study may be helpful in promoting quantitative analysis in TCM.