An extensive analysis of various texture feature extractors to detect Diabetes Mellitus using facial specific regions.

Journal: Computers in biology and medicine
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Abstract

INTRODUCTION: Researchers have recently discovered that Diabetes Mellitus can be detected through non-invasive computerized method. However, the focus has been on facial block color features. In this paper, we extensively study the effects of texture features extracted from facial specific regions at detecting Diabetes Mellitus using eight texture extractors.

Authors

  • Ting Shu
    Department of Computer and Information Science, University of Macau, Taipa, Macau, mb35455@umac.mo.
  • Bob Zhang
  • Yuan Yan Tang
    Department of Computer and Information Science, Avenida da Universidade, University of Macau, Taipa, Macau, China. Electronic address: yytang@umac.mo.