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Towards the Standardization of Tongue Diagnosis: An Image Processing Approach
Chinese Journal of Biomedical Engineering (2001)
  • Jiehua Zhu, Georgia Southern University
  • Yuen Pongchi
  • Li Chunhung
  • Zaoyuan Kuang
  • Wu Wei
Abstract
This paper addressed the standardization of tongue diagnosis using image processing approach. To analyze the tongue features locally, a tongue image is divided into a number of blocks with size 36 * 36. Two algorithms are developed to analyze the color and texture features of each block. A hierarchical K-means clustering algorithm in CIE L * u * v * color space is developed to determine the color cluster. Tongue textures are analyzed using Gabor wavelet opponent color features and the linear discriminant analysis. 121 tongue images are used to test the proposed algorithms and the results are encouraging.
Keywords
  • Tongue diagnosis,
  • Image processing,
  • Standardization
Disciplines
Publication Date
2001
Citation Information
Jiehua Zhu, Yuen Pongchi, Li Chunhung, Zaoyuan Kuang, et al.. "Towards the Standardization of Tongue Diagnosis: An Image Processing Approach" Chinese Journal of Biomedical Engineering Vol. 20 Iss. 2 (2001) p. 132 - 137 ISSN: 0258-8021
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/jiehua_zhu/49/