Eye Contour Extraction For Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Screening
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چکیده
Conventional screening for Fetal Alcohol Syndrome in children involves time-consuming and intrusive facial distance measurements. We are developing an alternative method that will allow automatic measurement of the relevant distances from a pair of stereo photographs, as a screening aid. This paper describes a method for automatic extraction from such photographs of the points on the eyes used in the distance measurements, using peak and valley maps of face images. The extracted points are compared with points extracted manually.
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