Computerized diagnosis from tongue appearance using quantitative feature classification

American Journal of Chinese Medicine

Volumn 33, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 859-866

  Zhang, David ^a   Pang, Bo ^b   Li, Naimin ^c   Wang, Kuanquan ^b   Zhang, Hongzhi ^b  

^a HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

^b HARBIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^c The 211 Hospital of PLA   (China)

Author keywords

Diagnosis from tongue appearance; Quantitative tongue features; Tongue image classification

Indexed keywords

APPENDICITIS; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PANCREATITIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; TONGUE; VALIDATION PROCESS;

APPENDICITIS; BIOMETRY; DIAGNOSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; HUMANS; PANCREATITIS; TONGUE DISEASES;

EID: 31144456142     PISSN: 0192415X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0192415X05003466     Document Type: Article

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