Color active contour models based tongue segmentation in traditional Chinese medicine

2007 1st International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedical Engineering, ICBBE

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 1065-1068

  Yu, Shengyang ^a   Yang, Jie ^a   Wang, Yonggang ^a   Zhang, Yan ^b  

^a SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NANJING UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Active contours; Color gradient; Gradient vector flow (GVF); Tongue diagnosis; Tongue segmentation

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; COLOR IMAGE PROCESSING; DIAGNOSIS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MEDICAL PROBLEMS;

COLOR GRADIENTS; GRADIENT VECTOR FLOW (GVF); TONGUE DIAGNOSIS; TONGUE SEGMENTATION;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 35348890195     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICBBE.2007.275     Document Type: Conference Paper

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