A Comparative Study of Contemporary Color Tongue Image Extraction Methods Based on HSI
Tongue image with coating is of important clinical diagnostic meaning, but traditional tongue image extraction method is not competent for extraction of tongue image with thick coating. In this paper, a novel method is suggested, which applies multiobjective greedy rules and makes fusion of color an...
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| description | Tongue image with coating is of important clinical diagnostic meaning, but traditional tongue image extraction method is not competent for extraction of tongue image with thick coating. In this paper, a novel method is suggested, which applies multiobjective greedy rules and makes fusion of color and space information in order to extract tongue image accurately. A comparative study of several contemporary tongue image extraction methods is also made from the aspects of accuracy and efficiency. As the experimental results show, geodesic active contour is quite slow and not accurate, the other 3 methods achieve fairly good segmentation results except in the case of the tongue with thick coating, our method achieves ideal segmentation results whatever types of tongue images are, and efficiency of our method is acceptable for the application of quantitative check of tongue image. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-473f28fa642b4caba17bc46ac203bac82025-08-20T02:39:20ZengWileyInternational Journal of Biomedical Imaging1687-41881687-41962014-01-01201410.1155/2014/534507534507A Comparative Study of Contemporary Color Tongue Image Extraction Methods Based on HSIMingfeng Zhu0Jianqiang Du1Chenghua Ding2School of Computer Science, Jiangxi University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Nanchang 330004, ChinaSchool of Computer Science, Jiangxi University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Nanchang 330004, ChinaSchool of Fundamental Medical Science, Jiangxi University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Nanchang 330004, ChinaTongue image with coating is of important clinical diagnostic meaning, but traditional tongue image extraction method is not competent for extraction of tongue image with thick coating. In this paper, a novel method is suggested, which applies multiobjective greedy rules and makes fusion of color and space information in order to extract tongue image accurately. A comparative study of several contemporary tongue image extraction methods is also made from the aspects of accuracy and efficiency. As the experimental results show, geodesic active contour is quite slow and not accurate, the other 3 methods achieve fairly good segmentation results except in the case of the tongue with thick coating, our method achieves ideal segmentation results whatever types of tongue images are, and efficiency of our method is acceptable for the application of quantitative check of tongue image.http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/534507 |
| spellingShingle | Mingfeng Zhu Jianqiang Du Chenghua Ding A Comparative Study of Contemporary Color Tongue Image Extraction Methods Based on HSI International Journal of Biomedical Imaging |
| title | A Comparative Study of Contemporary Color Tongue Image Extraction Methods Based on HSI |
| title_full | A Comparative Study of Contemporary Color Tongue Image Extraction Methods Based on HSI |
| title_fullStr | A Comparative Study of Contemporary Color Tongue Image Extraction Methods Based on HSI |
| title_full_unstemmed | A Comparative Study of Contemporary Color Tongue Image Extraction Methods Based on HSI |
| title_short | A Comparative Study of Contemporary Color Tongue Image Extraction Methods Based on HSI |
| title_sort | comparative study of contemporary color tongue image extraction methods based on hsi |
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