Towards the objectification of tongue diagnosis: Automatic segmentation of tongue image

IECON Proceedings (Industrial Electronics Conference)

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 2121-2124

  Li, Wenshu ^a   Hu, Shenning ^a   Wang, Shuai ^a   Xu, Su ^b  

^a ZHEJIANG SCI TECH UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC DIAGNOSIS; AUTOMATIC INITIALIZATION; AUTOMATIC SEGMENTATIONS; COLOR INFORMATION; CONTOUR EXTRACTION; CONTOUR SHAPE; CURVE EVOLUTION; ENERGY FUNCTIONS; HSV COLOR SPACES; LARGE DATABASE; LEVEL SET; LEVEL SET METHOD; NOVEL METHODS; SHAPE MODEL; TONGUE DIAGNOSIS; TRADITIONAL CHINESE MEDICINE;

COLOR; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; LEVEL MEASUREMENT;

INDUSTRIAL ELECTRONICS;

EID: 77951550549     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IECON.2009.5415334     Document Type: Conference Paper

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