Tongue line extraction

Proceedings - International Conference on Pattern Recognition

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  Liu, Laura Li ^a   Zhang, David ^a   Kumar, Ajay ^a   Wu, Xiangqian ^b  

^a HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

^b HARBIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXTRACTION; PATTERN RECOGNITION;

CLINICAL PRACTICES; IMPORTANT FEATURES; LIGHTING CONDITIONS; LINE DETECTORS; LINE EXTRACTION; ROUGH SURFACES; TRADITIONAL CHINESE TONGUE DIAGNOSES (TCTD); UNEVEN ILLUMINATIONS;

IMAGE ENHANCEMENT;

EID: 77957951095     PISSN: 10514651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/icpr.2008.4761651     Document Type: Conference Paper

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