Title :
A novel approach to extract sublingual vein from color image
Author :
Wang, Kuanquan ; Yan, Zifei ; Zhang, Henggui
Author_Institution :
Bio-comput. Res. Center, Harbin Inst. of Technol., China
Abstract :
Characteristics of tongue pose the most important information for traditional Chinese medicine diagnosis. So far, extensive studies have been made on extracting tongue surface features, but rarely refer to sublingual vein that is also diagnostically important. This paper presents a novel approach to extract spatial characteristics of sublingual vein based on the HSI color space using the H and S components. Sublingual vein structures have been successfully mapped for 113 out of 150 patients and healthy subjects.
Keywords :
biological organs; biomedical optical imaging; blood vessels; H component; HSI color space; S component; color image; spatial characteristics; sublingual vein; tongue characteristics; tongue surface feature extraction; traditional Chinese medicine diagnosis; Biomedical imaging; Color; Data mining; Feature extraction; Image analysis; Medical diagnostic imaging; Physics; Space technology; Tongue; Veins;
Conference_Titel :
Computer-Based Medical Systems, 2005. Proceedings. 18th IEEE Symposium on
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-2355-2
DOI :
10.1109/CBMS.2005.15