TY - GEN
T1 - A method of classifying tongue colors for traditional Chinese medicine diagnosis based on the CIELAB color space
AU - Li, Bocong
AU - Huang, Qingmei
AU - Lu, Yan
AU - Chen, Songhe
AU - Liang, Rong
AU - Wang, Zhaoping
PY - 2008
Y1 - 2008
N2 - Objective tongue color analysis is an important research point for tongue diagnosis in Traditional Chinese Medicine. In this paper a research based on the clinical process of diagnosing tongue color is reported. The color data in RGB color space were first transformed into the data in CIELAB color space, and the color gamut of the displayed tongue was obtained. Then a numerical method of tongue color classification based on the Traditional Chinese Medicine (for example: light white tongue, light red tongue, red tongue) was developed. The conclusion is that this research can give the description and classification of the tongue color close to those given by human vision and may be carried out in clinical diagnosis.
AB - Objective tongue color analysis is an important research point for tongue diagnosis in Traditional Chinese Medicine. In this paper a research based on the clinical process of diagnosing tongue color is reported. The color data in RGB color space were first transformed into the data in CIELAB color space, and the color gamut of the displayed tongue was obtained. Then a numerical method of tongue color classification based on the Traditional Chinese Medicine (for example: light white tongue, light red tongue, red tongue) was developed. The conclusion is that this research can give the description and classification of the tongue color close to those given by human vision and may be carried out in clinical diagnosis.
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:38549083856
SN - 3540774106
SN - 9783540774105
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 153
EP - 159
BT - Medical Biometrics - First International Conference, ICMB 2008, Proceedings
T2 - 1st International Conference on Medical Biometrics, ICMB 2008
Y2 - 4 January 2008 through 5 January 2008
ER -
