Automatic tongue image segmentation and tongue image classification are two crucial
tongue characterization tasks in traditional Chinese medicine (TCM). Due to the complexity …

Abstract Background In China, diabetes is a common, high-incidence chronic disease.
Diabetes has become a severe public health problem. However, the current diagnosis and …

Computer-aided tongue diagnosis system requires segmentation of the tongue body. The
frequent movement of the tongue due to its natural flexibility often causes shape variability in …

 Abstract Tongue diagnosis is an important process to non-invasively assess the condition
of a patient's internal organs in traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) and each part of the …

High-throughput technologies have enabled us to rapidly accumulate a wealth of diverse
data types. These multi-view data contain much more information to uncover the cluster …

Tongue image segmentation is a crucial step in developing an automatic tongue diagnosis
system. After exploring characteristics of image thresholding in different color spaces, we …

Abstract Purpose Kampo medicine (Japanese traditional herbal medicine) can identify
“Mibyou”(disease-oriented state) based on visual tongue inspection by a trained physician …

Tongue diagnosis plays a key role in TCM (Traditional Chinese Medicine) diagnosis.
Tongue image segmentation lays a solid foundation for quantitative tongue analysis and …

An automatic image segmentation procedure is an inevitable part of many image analyses
and computer vision which deeply affect the rest of the system; therefore, a set of interactive …

In the intelligently processing of the tongue image, one of the most important tasks is to
accurately segment the tongue body from a whole tongue image, and the good quality of …