Digital Indexing the Coated Tongue

Black coated tongue in integrative medicine: An alarm signal.

introduction In integrative medicine (IM), western medicine (WM) is associated with other non-conventional medicines, provided these are based on scientific evidence.1 All events are considered as part of the individual’s health/disease process, which includes physical, mental, emotional and environmental factors. Traditional chinese medicine (TCM) includes the inspection of the tongue as an im...

A man with fever, cough, diarrhea and a coated tongue.

Evaluation of Helicobacter pylori Infection and Its Relation with Coated Tongue in Patients Referring to UBT

Introduction: Mouth and tongue are prone to various changes resulting from inflammatory reactions, due to their contact with various factors,. This study aimed to determine the prevalence of helicobacter pylori infections and its relationship with coated tongue in the patients referring for urease breath test.   Materials & Methods: A descriptive cross-sectional study was carried out on 606 pa...

Indexing, browsing, and searching of digital video

Video is a communications medium that normally brings together moving pictures with a synchronised audio track into a discrete piece or pieces of information. The size of a “piece” of video can variously be referred to as a frame, a shot, a scene, a clip, a programme or an episode, and these are distinguished by their lengths and by their composition. We shall return to the definition of each o...

Image Indexing and Retrieval from Digital Libraries

As digital image libraries grow, methods for indexing and searching such libraries based on image content become more important. In this paper we focus on three speciic approaches to the representation of images for content-based image indexing and retrieval 13,20,29] although others will be discussed brieey. The work of 13] represents one of many methods which blends color histograms with some...