Development of Non-Invasive Functional Medical Image Inspection System for Human Physiological Body Information

• Main Author: 茆尚憲
• Other Authors: 李明義
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2004
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/69445373129275234682

碩士 === 長庚大學 === 機械工程研究所 === 92 === The non-invasive inspection method is one of the development direction of the contemporary medicine. And the functional medical image inspection methods aim at specific tissue, organ or disease majority, rather than the invasive inspection method, always use the digital image processing technology to achieve the inspection purpose. This research manipulate the digital image processing as the core technology, and point to some specific messages of the human body such as saliva crystallization, foot bottom pressure and temperature, and discuss these relations with the health. This investigation is divided into three parts: The first part of this research is "Using the Infrared Thermal Image Technology on the degenerative arthritis", it use an infrared thermal image instrument to quantitatively evaluate the patient of the degenerative arthritis in contrast with the normal people at the knees. The clinical experiment of this research is cooperated with the St. Paul`s Hospital, and the patients who are suitable to execute this clinical experiment is selected by the orthopaedic doctor. Use the thermal distribution diagram measured by the infrared thermal image instrument to do the temperature analysis. The thermal image of the tested of their left and right knee was divided into four areas at first, and then compute the average temperatures of each areas, and use the SPSS statistical software by the means of the independent sample t-test and paired t-test, to analyze the temperature difference between the patient of the degenerative arthritis and the normal people, also the difference between the disease leg and normal leg of the degenerative arthritic patient, and the relationship with the pain index. The second part of this research is「The Development of Digital Optical Saliva Crystallization by Functional medical image inspection System」,first of all a pilot study about the relationship between women menstrual cycle and saliva crystal was carried out to clarify the relationship between the pull strings of saliva in women’s mouth and the ovulate period. After confirmed the mechanism that related in this research, the notion designed of hardware and software were done, the model of the hardware were built by using the CAD designing software, then prototype was made and a testing procedure was carried out. In addition, the evaluate system was developed by using Borland C++ Builder software, each functional component of this system was tested and integrated. This digital optical saliva crystallization by functional medical image inspection system was testing on clinical patient. The third part of this research is「The Development of the Bottom Foot Health-Care’s Functional Medical Image Inspection System」,the task of research included investigated against the foot pressure、temperature of foot、temperature of foot and relation between the human health and clinical problem clarification, then the notion designed of hardware and software were carried out, the model of the hardware were built by using the CAD designing software, after prototype was made a testing procedure was carried out. This bottom foot health-care’s functional medical image inspection system also developed by Borland C++ Builder software. Via the image processing technique, the pressure distribution of foot was calculated by math’s transformation formula by the foot contact on ground was scanned with optical scanner and matched up with subject’s body weight. The superficial temperature of foot was acquired by the liquid crystal temperature slab’s characteristic of detect temperature color. After the hardware and software were integrated, the functional testing and clinical testing was carried out. The first part of research about the infrared thermal image technology on the degenerative arthritis, the clinical experiment proved that the superficial temperature difference have positive correlation with the clinical features, so doctor was suggested to use infrared thermal image system as an objective evaluation device on knee degenerative arthritis patient. In the part of the developed digital optical saliva crystallization by functional medical image inspection system, in this research, the image processing analysis technique to establish correlation index and saliva crystallization image database, it may be can provide women a ovulate period inspection device. And the part of the bottom foot health-care’s functional medical image inspection system was developed, due to the multiple function of this system, it can simultaneously evaluated the body weight、the contours of foot bottom、foot pressure and temperature distribution, it will be a multiple health-care device for self evaluate specific message from foot bottom at home.