Title
Localization of acupoints on a head based on a 3D virtual body
Abstract
Modern computer science allows powerful and versatile computer-based knowledge representations of acupuncture, one part of Traditional Chinese Medicine. For further research and development of acupuncture therapy, it is critical to define where to accurately localize acupoints onto such a computer based pictorial representation of the human body. Using the segmentation and 3D visualization of the VOXEL-MAN software system, original work for localizing the acupoints on a head based of a virtual body is reported in this paper. The proposed 2D acupoint description links the description taken from literature for locating acupoints in Traditional Chinese Medicine to the data in the absolute reference frame of a 3D virtual body. It offers a simple and useful way for the localization of acupoints on a 3D model, especially one derived from the data from Visible Human Project.
Year
DOI
Venue
2005
10.1016/j.imavis.2004.03.005
Image and Vision Computing
Keywords
Field
DocType
Traditional Chinese Medicine,Acupuncture and moxibustion,Localization of acupoints,Three-dimensional body model,Visible Human Project,VOXEL-MAN
Reference frame,Computer vision,Visualization,Segmentation,Software system,Artificial intelligence,Visible human project,Mathematics,Human body
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
23
1
0262-8856
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
1
0.37
1
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Lei Zheng110.37
Binjie Qin2507.85
Tiange Zhuang3836.87
Ulf Tiede434089.02
Karl Heinz Höhne5562205.28