Computerized tongue image segmentation via the double geo-vector flow

Chinese Medicine (United Kingdom)

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Shi, Miao Jing ^a   Li, Guo Zheng ^b   Li, Fu Feng ^c   Xu, Chao ^a  

^a Peking University   (China)

^b TONGJI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c SHANGHAI UNIVERSITY OF TRADITIONAL CHINESE MEDICINE   (China)

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EID: 84893863277     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17498546     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1749-8546-9-7     Document Type: Article

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