Journal of Signal Processing
Online ISSN : 1880-1013
Print ISSN : 1342-6230
ISSN-L : 1342-6230
Volume 27, Issue 5
Journal of Signal Processing, Vol.27 (2023) No.5 (Editor-in-Chief: Takashi Yahagi)
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  • Zhenyu An, Ren Wu, Mitsuru Nakata, Qi-Wei Ge
    2023 Volume 27 Issue 5 Pages 133-143
    Published: September 01, 2023
    Released on J-STAGE: September 01, 2023
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    In this paper, we apply artificial intelligence technology to tongue diagnosis in Traditional Chinese Medicine and propose a five-division diagnostic method that divides the tongue image into five parts and diagnoses the health condition of the internal organs. Every part of the tongue, including the tip, middle, two sides and root of the tongue, is supposed to reflect the corresponding organ(s), the heart / lung, stomach / spleen, liver / gall, and kidney individually. The five-division diagnostic method first recognizes and extracts the tongue part from a given image using the image recognition technology of artificial intelligence. Next, the extracted image is divided into the five parts of the tongue. Further, the two sides of the tongue are integrated into one. Finally, the corresponding internal organs' health condition is diagnosed for each part's image. In this paper, Mask R-CNN is used for tongue recognition and tongue image extraction, and five image recognition models (LeNet, ResNet50, ResNet101, DenseNet169, and EfficientNet-B0) and an ensemble of four of these models (except EfficientNet-B0) are used for the health examination of the organs. Experimental results show that ensemble learning is superior to the accuracy of the four individual models and the accuracy rates for all five parts of the tongue reach more than 80%. In addition, comparison experiment using EfficientNet-B0 was conducted in order to compare its accuracy with that of the other four models and as the result EfficientNet-B0 was inferior to any one of the four. From these results, the five-division diagnostic method with the ensemble is effective to diagnoses the health condition of the internal organs.

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  • 29. Mathematical Considerations of Cascade Matrix Used in Circuit Theory
    Nobuo Nagai, Hirofumi Sanada, Takashi Yahagi
    2023 Volume 27 Issue 5 Pages 145-150
    Published: September 01, 2023
    Released on J-STAGE: September 01, 2023
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    Fuchs functions are one of the solutions to one-dimensional wave equations and are expressed similarly to cascade matrices used in circuit theory. Because Fuchs functions are groups, they have the operation of multiplication but do not require the operation of addition. However, the operation of addition is possible for cascade matrices owing to their transformation. As 2 × 2 matrices, cascade matrices have the potential to lead to new mathematics. Moreover, the Maxwell equations are considered to be the equations of fields as well as those of electromagnetic waves. In this case, the phenomena of refraction and partial reflection should be describable by the Maxwell equations. Therefore, the equations of electromagnetic waves derived from the Maxwell equations are expected to be telegrapher's equations which are realized by coaxial cables.

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