Significant Geometry Features in Tongue Image Analysis
Joint Authors
Source
Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine
Issue
Vol. 2015, Issue 2015 (31 Dec. 2015), pp.1-8, 8 p.
Publisher
Hindawi Publishing Corporation
Publication Date
2015-07-13
Country of Publication
Egypt
No. of Pages
8
Main Subjects
Abstract EN
The shape of a human tongue and its relation to a patients’ state, either healthy or diseased (and if diseased which disease), is quantitatively analyzed using geometry features by means of computerized methods in this paper.
Thirteen geometry features based on measurements, distances, areas, and their ratios are extracted from tongue images captured by a specially designed device with color correction.
Using the features, 5 tongue shapes (rectangle, acute and obtuse triangles, square, and circle) are defined based on traditional Chinese medicine (TCM).
Classification of the shapes is subsequently carried out with a decision tree.
A large dataset consisting of 672 images comprising of 130 healthy and 542 disease examples (labeled according to Western medical practices) are tested.
Experimental results show that the extracted geometry features are effective at tongue shape classification (coarse level).
Even if more than one disease class belongs to the same shape, the disease classes can still be discriminated via fine level classification using a combination of the geometry features, with an average accuracy of 76.24% for all shapes.
American Psychological Association (APA)
Zhang, Bob& Zhang, Han. 2015. Significant Geometry Features in Tongue Image Analysis. Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine،Vol. 2015, no. 2015, pp.1-8.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1063744
Modern Language Association (MLA)
Zhang, Bob& Zhang, Han. Significant Geometry Features in Tongue Image Analysis. Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine No. 2015 (2015), pp.1-8.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1063744
American Medical Association (AMA)
Zhang, Bob& Zhang, Han. Significant Geometry Features in Tongue Image Analysis. Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine. 2015. Vol. 2015, no. 2015, pp.1-8.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1063744
Data Type
Journal Articles
Language
English
Notes
Includes bibliographical references
Record ID
BIM-1063744