Early Detection on the Condition of Pancreas Organ as the

Cause of Diabetes Mellitus by Real Time Iris Image

Processing
Adhi Dharma Wibawa Mauridhi Hery Purnomo
Electrical Engineering Department Electrical Engineering Department
Technical Faculty, Hang Tuah University Institut Teknologi Sepuluh Nopember
Sukolilo, Surabaya Indonesia Surabaya, Indonesia
arzabelva@yahoo.com hery@ee.its.ac.id

Abstract— Iridology is an alternative method in evaluating the
condition of our internal organ by looking at the image of iris.
Evaluating the iris is done by detecting the presence of some
broken tissues in iris. In this paper, input image of the iris will
be taken by using a video camera in real time. The presence of
broken tissues in iris in a certain area will represent the
condition of certain organ according to the chart of iris. The
organ that will be observed, in this research, is Pancreas.
Pancreas’s position in iris is at 07.15 – 07.45 when a circle of
iris is divided by 120 points. Several image processing methods
will be used to enhance the quality of image of iris so that the
broken tissues in area of pancreas can be detected clearly.
Finally, the result of this detecting method will be compared
with the Insulin normality test.
Recently, the development of iridology takes an important
stage. Many clinical practitioners have applied iridology as the first
tool to diagnose the symptoms and continue to cure the disease
medically. In Europe, there are about 20.000 iridology
practitioners who diagnose patient by learning the formation of
tissues in iris.
However, most of those practitioners do their way manually or
not computerized. In this research, by using real time image
processing the authors try to detect automatically the condition of
tissues in right iris in order to learn the condition of pancreas organ.
According to the chart of iris (Dr. Bernard Jensen’s Chart of iris)
the location of organ pancreas in iris is at 07.15 – 07.45 o’clock
after the stomach area (from the center of iris) and only in the right
eye [2].

I. INTRODUCTION
Iridology is the science of analyzing the delicate structures of
the iris of the eye. The iris reveals body constitution, inherent
weaknesses, levels of health and transitions that take place in a
person's body according to the way one lives. There is an old
saying that the eyes are the window of the soul. They can also be a
window to one’s health. Like fingerprints or faces, no two irises
(the colored part of the eye) are exactly alike. The iris structure is
so unique it is now being used for security identification at ATM
machines and airports. And for centuries, it has also been used to
analyze people’s health – past, present and future. The study of the
iris for medical purposes is called iridology.
The iris contains detailed fibers and pigmentation that reflects
our physical and psychological makeup. When an organ or body
system is in poor health, the nerve running from that body part will Figure 1: International Chart of iris
start to recede. When it does, it draws with it various degrees of the (http://iridology.en.ec21.com)
layers of fibers which make up the color of the iris of the eyes,
leaving darkened marks called lesions [9].
. Iris can functionally be the data screen to describe the II. TOOLS AND GRABBING PREPARATION
condition of our internal organ (Moore Robert, 2005). Many
problems can be detected by looking at iris such as metabolism
disorder, malnutrition, poisoned and some damage that happen to In this paper, video camera is used as the main tool to take the
several organs such as kidney, lever, heart, stomach, pancreas, picture of iris. With Mini DV Technology and Pinnacle Video
limps etc. Capture Card DV500, the image of iris of the patient will be
captured by using Delphi Programming. In order to avoid rotation

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of the position of the eye that can cause shifting the area of
pancreas, all standard tools are prepared such as a holder of head,
tripod for stabilizing the angle of the camera, and a handler for
hands. Lamp for eyes is also an important tool to increase the light.
Some image processing steps will be done after the image of
iris is ready in the form of an image with size grabbed 720 x 576
pixels as the standard size of a video file [8].
Figure 2: Complete features of an eye ball
III. SOME IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD
Some Image processing methods have been done here for
several points:
1. To take the area of iris only (ROI), this means that in
one grabbed frame from video, image contains several
areas of an eye such as the white area of an eye ball,
the skin around the eye, eyelid and eyelash. Image
processing methods using circle equation is done in
order to take the area of iris only. The radius of the
circle is determined by mouse down and mouse up
indicator.
Figure 3: Region of Interest of an image grabbed
2. Transforming this image (ROI) into grey level, in this
step, only an eye ball picture will be changed into the
balance colour with equation [1]:
NColour = (R+G+B) / 3 (1)
3. Filtering the iris image with minimum filter. By
sequencing each block 3x3 pixel from image of iris we
set the colour of a pixel in position (2, 2) with the
lowest value of the block (group pixels). It is done for
all pixels in an image of iris. This filtering method can
be applied for 2 or 3 times to the same image of iris in
order to get the best result [1].
4. Enhancing the final result. By this method, an image
can be sharpened by separating each pixel value with a
standard value that we determine before, a pixel which
has value below the standard value then will be
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degraded lower and also in the opposite so that we can
get an image with big separation of value.
Figure 4: Enhancing the quality of iris image on the third
quarter.
5. Taking the location of Pancreas organ at the position:
07.15 – 07.45 in the third quarter of an eye ball with
size: 20 x 20 pixels. In one quarter of an eye ball area
is divided by 30 points, starting at 06.00 to 09.00. The
location of Pancreas organ lies in 07.15 – 07.45.
Figure 5: The picture of the Pancreas area after being applied by
Sobel Operation (20x20 Pixels)
IV. RESEARCH ENVIRONMENT
In this research, there will be 42 patients that will be evaluated
and all of them have diabetic problem. Most of the patients are
woman and most of them are more than 40 years old. This group of
patients is taken from east java area, specifically from Pandaan, a
small city in south of Surabaya. From this 42 data, there are only
34 data of iris that is available to be detected by using this system.
From this 34 data, there are 11 data has no sign of broken tissue
but the others have. In the final stage, all data that have been
detected by real time image processing will be compared by
clinical test (Insulin Normality test). If the result of detection is
positive (it means that there are some broken tissues in the iris),
this result will be compared with Insulin Normality Test. This is
important to measure the accuracy of the system and also to prove
the correlation between the presences of broken tissue in iris in
specific position with the condition of Pancreas organ [8].
In order to avoid bias on collecting data, Insulin test should be
done in very strict ways, such as: the patient should not have
another disease except Diabetes Mellitus, the patient should not in
the condition of consuming drugs for Diabetes Mellitus especially
drugs for triggering the productivity of Insulin. It means that the
patient must stop consuming the drug for about 4 – 5 days in order
to release the influence of the medicine.
V. RESULT
In this research, the early detection system will be evaluated by
two kinds of method. Firstly, how can the system detect precisely
the presence of broken tissue in iris by using real time image
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processing. In this stage, evaluating, the result of the detection will For all of these aspects and complexities, it is expected that
be compared with the reference from Iridology Practitioner, and there will be more research with more effective and precision
the result is about 94 % system can detect precisely the presence of result in the future.
broken tissue in iris (32 data are right in detection and 2 data are
wrong).
Secondly, the result of broken tissue detection will be VII. CONCLUSION
compared with the result of clinical test (Insulin Normality Test).
At this moment, from 6 patients that show a very clear broken Iridology is an alternative method to observe the condition of
tissue in their iris, they also have a great abnormality in Insulin our body by looking at iris. Real time image processing is an
productivity. The equation in measuring the Insulin Normality Test important tool to explore the features of iris such the holes, lines,
is HOMA-B equation as shown below. shadows etc. Several methods of image processing should be
developed not only to get all features of iris but also to enhance the
20 xFastingInsulin( µU / ml ) (2) quality of iris image.
N= The location of Pancreas organ is at 07.15 – 07.45 in the third
BloodGlu cos e(mmol / l ) − 3,5
quarter of an iris and the distance of this location to the centre of
an eye ball is about 0.6 x Radius of an eye ball. This result is
The value of normal N is in range: 70 – 150 as normal Insulin obtained statistically from the 34 data of iris.
Productivity. However, the result of all data at the moment is as In this research, the level of significance in detecting the
shown below in a table. presence of broken tissue is about 94 %, from 34 patients, and the
level of significance in detecting the abnormality of Pancreas
TABLE I. THE RESULT OF INSULIN TEST organ is 100 % from 6 patients. From these results, we may
Random conclude that Iridology is really a scientific knowledge that can be
Insulin used as a pre diagnostic tool in several medical cases. Some image
No Patient Blood Date Test
(µU/ml) processing methods can be used to explore more detail the features
Glucose
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