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A two-stage segmentation of sublingual veins based on compact fully convolutional networks for Traditional Chinese Medicine images
As one of the key methods of Traditional Chinese Medicine inspection, tongue diagnosis manifests the advantages of simplicity and directness. Sublingual veins can provide essential information about human heal...
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Open AccessMEA-Net: multilayer edge attention network for medical image segmentation
Medical image segmentation is a fundamental step in medical analysis and diagnosis. In recent years, deep learning networks have been used for precise segmentation. Numerous improved encoder–decoder structures...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Automatic Facial Complexion Classification Based on Mixture Model
Classification of facial colors plays a vital role in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), photo beautification, matching cloths and other beauty and cosmetics industry. The face color of a person is considered...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Robust Lip Segmentation Based on Complexion Mixture Model
Lip image analysis plays a vital role in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) and other visual and speech recognition applications. However, if the lip images contain weak color difference with background parts ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Lip Segmentation Based on Facial Complexion Template
In Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), lip diagnosis is an important diagnostic method to judge whether a person is healthy or not. Lip images can reflect the physical conditions of organs in the body. Lip dia...
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C2G2FSnake: automatic tongue image segmentation utilizing prior knowledge
Extraction of the tongue body from digital images is essential for automated tongue diagnoses in traditional Chinese medicine. This paper presents a fully automated active contour initial method that utilizes ...
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Open AccessComputer-assisted lip diagnosis on traditional Chinese medicine using multi-class support vector machines
In Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), the lip diagnosis is an important diagnostic method which has a long history and is applied widely. The lip color of a person is considered as a symptom to reflect the ph...
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Detecting non-stationarity for auscultation signal of traditional Chinese medicine
The information about the nonstationarity of the auscultation signal is utilized in this paper to objectively and automatically identify healthy people and patients with qi-deficiency or yin-deficiency. In ord...
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Tracheal compliance and limit flow rate changes in a murine model of asthma
Trachea is the unique passage for air to flow in and out. Its tone is of importance for the respiration system. However, investigation on how tracheal tone changes due to asthma is limited. Aiming at studying ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Detecting Nonlinearity in Wrist Pulse Using Delay Vector Variance Method
The cardiovascular system is known theoretically to contain many nonlinearities. Delay Vector Variance method is a novel method for detecting nonlinearity of time series, which can detect the nonlinearity of t...
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Study on cartilaginous and muscular strains of rat trachea
This paper introduces a new method, termed Twice Cutting, for obtaining the zero-stress states of cartilage and muscle of trachea. The method applied cuts at the two junctions of tracheal cartilage and muscle ...
