Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine

Research Article

A Noncontact Method for Locating Radial Artery above Radial Styloid Process in Thermal Image

Algorithm 1

Algorithm of locating x coordinate of GUAN.
(1)Extract the by identifying maximal connected component.
(2)Smooth , .
(3)Calculate from..
(4)Identify salient in and first local minimum of near the salient.
(5)Locate x coordinate of GUAN.