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http://dx.doi.org/10.21288/resko.2016.10.2.141

Detection of Tongue Area using Active Contour Model  

Han, Young-Hwan (상지대학교 컴퓨터정보공학부)
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Journal of rehabilitation welfare engineering & assistive technology / v.10, no.2, 2016 , pp. 141-146 More about this Journal
Abstract
In this paper, we apply limited area mask operation and active contour model to accurately detect tongue area outline in tongue diagnosis system. To accurately analyze the properties of the tongue, first, the tongue area to be detected. Therefore an effective segmentation method for detecting the edge of tongue is very important. It experimented with tongue image DB consists of 20~30 students 30 people. Experiments on real tongue image show the good performance of this method. Experimental results show that the proposed method extracts object boundaries more accurately than existing methods without mask operation.
Keywords
Active Contour Model; Snake Algorithm; Tongue; Segmentation;
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