Objectifying research on special region corresponding to five internal organs in colour inspections of Chinese medicine.
Objective: To study the differences in a special region (SR) corresponding to five internal organs between the young and the elderly and to verify the effectiveness of a developed system for objectifying research in colour inspections of Chinese medicine (CICM). Methods: An image acquisition device...
| Publicado en: | Chinese Journal of Integrative Medicine Vol. 20; no. 10; pp. 737 - 743 |
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Springer Nature
Oct2014
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ccm&AN=103903903&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ccm uiTerm: 103903903 longDbName: CINAHL Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: dissinfo: jinfo: jid: 16720415 1CAP jtl: Chinese Journal of Integrative Medicine issn: 16720415 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Oct2014 vid: 20 iid: 10 pid: 237 pub: Springer Nature place: New York, New York artinfo: ui: 103903903 98898771 10.1007/s11655-013-1660-y NLM24452488 103903903 ppf: 737 ppct: 6 formats: tig: atl: Objectifying research on special region corresponding to five internal organs in colour inspections of Chinese medicine. aug: au: Zheng, Dong-mei Dai, Zhen-dong Wang, Hong-mo affil: College of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing 210016 China sug: subj: Meridians In Adulthood Meridians In Old Age Face Color Diagnostic Imaging Human Funding Source Male Female Adult Young Adult Middle Age Aged Aged, 80 and Over Software Descriptive Statistics Photography Data Analysis Software T-Tests Adult: 19-44 years Middle Aged: 45-64 years Aged: 65+ years Aged, 80 & over Male Female ab: Objective: To study the differences in a special region (SR) corresponding to five internal organs between the young and the elderly and to verify the effectiveness of a developed system for objectifying research in colour inspections of Chinese medicine (CICM). Methods: An image acquisition device imitating daylight to meet the requirement of CICM was designed. Image processing software based on CICM theory was developed. A total of 83 normal people were sampled and assigned to two groups. The first group (Group I) included 30 people with an average age of 24±2, and the second group (Group II) included 53 people with an average age of 74±4. After image processing, the chromaticity of 10 SRs corresponding to five internal organs was calculated. R, G, and B represent the chromaticity of color red, green, and blue, L indicates color brightness, whereas a and b denote red and yellow respectively. The difference between the young and the elderly was analyzed. Results: (1) The chromaticity of each SR corresponding to five organs was obtained. The average R, G, B, L, a, and b of the sample were 194.4, 147.6, 119.3, 65.2, 15.5, and 22.3, respectively. (2) The R, G, B, and L of the young were greater than those of the elderly, but the a and b of the young were less than those of the elderly. (3) A statistically significant difference in each SR was found between the young and the elderly ( P <0.05). The total differences for the Lung (Fei), Heart (Xin), Liver (Gan), Spleen (Pi), and Kidney (Shen) were 50% (3/6), 66.7% (4/6), 66.7% (4/6), 83.3% (5/6), and 91.7% (33/36), respectively. However, the Kidney SR had the greatest statistical discrepancy. Conclusion: The old Chinese saying that human Kidney deficiency worsens with age was verified by the results. The objectifying system used to examine CICM was effective. Thus, this system may be used as a basis for further research. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: pictorial research tables/charts Journal Article ougenre: Article language: English refInfo: holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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