The bi-elliptical deformable contour and its application to automated tongue segmentation in chinese medicine

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 24, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 946-956

  Pang, Bo ^a   Zhang, David ^b   Wang, Kuanquan ^a  

^a HARBIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Chinese medicine; Deformable templates; Medical biometrics; Snakes; Tongue image segmentation

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; COLOR IMAGE PROCESSING; DIAGNOSIS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; MEDICINE; PATHOLOGY; PATIENT MONITORING; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

CHINESE MEDICINE; DEFORMABLE TEMPLATES; MEDICAL BIOMETRICS; SNAKES; TONGUE IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHINESE MEDICINE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELASTICITY; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE SUBTRACTION; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; METHODOLOGY; PHOTOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TONGUE;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELASTICITY; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; MEDICINE, CHINESE TRADITIONAL; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; PHOTOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SUBTRACTION TECHNIQUE; TONGUE;

EID: 23844535467     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2005.850552     Document Type: Article

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