Title :
Automatic location of facial acupuncture-point based on content of infrared thermal image
Author :
Zhao, Yufeng ; Zhang, Dong ; Wang, Yaxiang
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Biomed. Eng., China Acad. of Chinese Med. Sci., Beijing, China
Abstract :
Automatic location of acupuncture-point is an available way to the characterization of Chinese Medicine. In this paper, the content of infrared thermal image is investigated to mine the automatic location of facial acupuncture-point by the image processing technology. Since user´s work is not involved in the location of acupuncture-point, the characterization of facial diagnosis can be greatly improved, which is further favorable to assisting with the facial diseases diagnosis. The experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed automatic location method of facial acupuncture-point.
Keywords :
diseases; face recognition; infrared imaging; medical computing; Chinese medicine characterization; automatic location method; facial acupuncture-point; facial diseases diagnosis; image processing technology; infrared thermal image; Accuracy; Face; Humans; Image color analysis; Medical diagnostic imaging; Tongue; Automatic location; Characterization of Chinese Medicine; Facial acupuncture-point; Infrared thermal image;
Conference_Titel :
Computer Science and Education (ICCSE), 2010 5th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Hefei
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-6002-1
DOI :
10.1109/ICCSE.2010.5593668