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Chapter
Food Contaminants
Nowadays, with food safety incidents occurring repeatedly in many countries, consumers and organizations are increasingly concerned about the quality and safety of foodstuffs. The presence of food contaminants...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
AMGE: A Tongue Body Segmentation Assessment Method via Gradient Energy
Tongue body segmentation is essential for the computerized tongue diagnosis. Several segmentation methods have been developed and some evaluation methods have been used for test the segmentation. However, it i...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Multiscale Sample Entropy Analysis of Wrist Pulse Blood Flow Signal for Disease Diagnosis
Recent study reported that wrist pulse blood flow signal is effective for disease diagnosis. The multiscale entropy, which was developed for quantifying the complexity of a time series of physiological signals...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Diabetes Identification and Classification by Means of a Breath Analysis System
This article proposes a breath analysis system that makes use of chemical sensors to detect acetone in human breath, and hence detect the diabetes and measure the blood glucose levels of diabetics. We captured...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Tongue Image Identification System on Congestion of Fungiform Papillae (CFP)
Tongue diagnosis is a unique and important diagnostic method in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM). It is used to observe abnormal changes in the tongue for identifying diseases. However, due to its qualitativ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Tongue Image Texture Segmentation Based on Gabor Filter Plus Normalized Cut
Texture information of tongue image is one of the most important pathological features utilized in practical Tongue Diagnosis because it can reveal the severeness and change tendency of the illness. A texture ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Classification of Wrist Pulse Blood Flow Signal Using Time Warp Edit Distance
The blood flow signals can be used to examine a person’s health status and have been widely used in the study of the clinical diagnosis of cardiovascular diseases. According to the pulse diagnosis theory of tr...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Pulse Waveform Classification Using ERP-Based Difference-Weighted KNN Classifier
Although the great progress in sensor and signal processing techniques have provided effective tools for quantitative research into traditional Chinese pulse diagnosis, the automatic classification of pulse wa...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Radii Solaris Extraction through Primitive Modelling
On Iris, features such as lacunae, crypts, lines are closely related with diseases and health status of human body. As one of such features, Radii Solaris plays an important role in automatic diagnosis through...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Tongueprint Feature Extraction and Application to Health Statistical Analysis
Tongueprint images of healthy populations can be differentiated from those of unhealthy populations by features of tongueprints (tongueprint is fissile texture on the tongue) according to observation by naked ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Adaptive Segmentation and Feature Quantization of Sublingual Veins of Healthy Humans
The Sublingual Vein Diagnosis, one part of Tongue Diagnosis, plays an important role in deciding the healthy condition of humans. This paper focuses on establishing a feature quantization framework for the ins...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Automatic Classification of Tongueprints in Healthy and Unhealthy Individuals
Tongueprints are fissile texture on tongue and one of observational contents of tongue diagnosis, which is an important diagnostic method in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM). With deep researches on tonguepr...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Texture Feature Extraction and Classification for Iris Diagnosis
Appling computer aided techniques in iris image processing, and combining occidental iridology with the traditional Chinese medicine is a challenging research area in digital image processing and artificial in...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Pixel Based Tongue Color Analysis
Tongue diagnosis is a distinctive and essential diagnostic measure in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), and chromatic information is its most decisive characteristic which is utilized to unearth pathological...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Deterministic Convergence of an Online Gradient Method with Momentum
An online gradient method with momentum for feedforward neural network is considered. The learning rate is set to be a constant and the momentum coefficient an adaptive variable. Both the weak and strong conve...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Recent Developments on Convergence of Online Gradient Methods for Neural Network Training
A survey is presented on some recent developments on the convergence of online gradient methods for feedforward neural networks such as BP neural networks. Unlike most of the convergence results which are of p...
