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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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Li, B., Huang, Q., Lu, Y., Chen, S., Liang, R., Wang, Z. (2007). A Method of Classifying Tongue Colors for Traditional Chinese Medicine Diagnosis Based on the CIELAB Color Space. In: Zhang, D. (eds) Medical Biometrics. ICMB 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4901. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-77413-6_20
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