Throughout the course of its development, palmprint features have always been studied and analyzed by experts from diverse fields, such as biometric identification, psychology, and fate theory. So far, papers about palmprints are mostly concerned about applications like personal identification; analyses about its application in palmistry are fewer. Therefore, in this paper, we put into practice a system that analyzes palmistry. With the help of image processing techniques, we transmit the information extracted from the palmprint image into our analyzing system, and have the palmprint assayed. Further discussion about each processing step of the system and details about the experiments are also included in the paper.

第一章 緒論 1
1.1 研究動機與目的 1
1.2 論文組織架構簡介 2
第二章 掌紋特徵介紹 4
2.1 掌紋身分識別 4
2.2 手相命理學介紹 6
2.2.1掌丘介紹 7
2.2.2掌紋介紹 8
第三章 掌紋影像處理 10
3.1 掌紋影像擷取 10
3.2 去背景閥值分析 13
3.2.1 Otsu Method 17
3.2.2 Mode Method 21
3.2.3線性迴歸（Linear Regression） 23
3.3 主體物件二值化閥值分析 28
3.4 條件式擴張 32
3.5 平滑處理 34
3.6 左右兩邊界方程式 35
3.7 細化演算法探討 37
3.7.1中軸法 38
3.7.2剝皮法 40
3.7.3細化演算法特性比較 46
3.8 主線特徵抽取 49
3.8.1區塊移動 49
3.8.2主線追蹤 50
3.8.3主線補點 53
3.9 感情線尾端修正與主軸定位 55
3.9.1感情線尾端修正 55
3.9.2主軸定位與曲率判斷 58
3.10 支線數量估計 60
第四章 掌紋命理分析 64
4.1 命理分析規則 64
4.1.1感情線 64
4.1.2智慧線 66
4.1.3生命線 67
4.2 掌紋命理分析 69
第五章 實驗結果 72
第六章 結論及未來研究方向. 79
參考文獻 81
附錄：英文論文

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