The region partition of quality and coating for tongue image based on color image segmentation method

Author

Xu, Jiatuo ; Tu, Liping ; Zhang, Zhifeng ; Zhang, Li ; Zhou, Changle

Author_Institution

Shanghai Univ. of Traditional Chinese Med., Shanghai

fYear

2008

fDate

12-14 Dec. 2008

Firstpage

817

Lastpage

821

Abstract

The recognition of tongue image is one of the essential contents for automatic diagnosis of tongue information. The identification of tongue quality and coating is an important procedure in the tongue diagnosis, and it is also the premise for analyzing the color of tongue quality and coating and its texture characteristics in the later stage. This paper employs "division-merging method" and "chrominance-threshold method" to distinguish the tongue quality and coating on the basis of color image segmentation method. The results show that the two methods work well in the area partition of the quality and coating of tongue images.

Keywords

biological organs; image colour analysis; image recognition; image segmentation; image texture; medical image processing; patient diagnosis; automatic tongue diagnosis; chrominance-threshold method; color image segmentation; division-merging method; image recognition; image texture; tongue coating; tongue image; tongue quality; Biomedical imaging; Coatings; Image color analysis; Image edge detection; Image recognition; Image segmentation; Image texture analysis; Light sources; Medical diagnostic imaging; Tongue;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

IT in Medicine and Education, 2008. ITME 2008. IEEE International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Xiamen

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-3616-3

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-2511-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ITME.2008.4743981

Filename

4743981