Tongue diagnosis is one of the most precious and widely used diagnostic methods in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM). However, due to its subjective, qualitative and experience-dependent nature, the studies on tongue...Tongue diagnosis is one of the most precious and widely used diagnostic methods in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM). However, due to its subjective, qualitative and experience-dependent nature, the studies on tongue characterization have been widely emphasized. This paper surveys recent progresses in analysis of tongue manifestation. These new developments include the cross-network and cross-media color reproduction of tongue image, the automatic segmentation of tongue body based on knowledge, the automatic analysis of curdiness and griminess for the tongue fur and the automatic analysis of plumpness, wryness and dot -thorn of tongue body. The clinic experiments verify the validity of these new methods.展开更多
Traditionally, differentiation of syndromes of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) mainly depends on the information obtained from four diagnosis methods. Now many physicochemical parameters are available in clinic. Th...Traditionally, differentiation of syndromes of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) mainly depends on the information obtained from four diagnosis methods. Now many physicochemical parameters are available in clinic. There exists great correlation between TCM syndromes and physicochemical parameters. The objective of the paper is to analyze the correlation between TCM syndromes and physicochemical parameters quantitatively. Correlation analysis has been widely studied and many analysis methods have been developed. Mutual information based on entropy can measure arbitrary dependence between variables. It has been applied to many kinds of fields, especially to pattern recognition. But most works are restricted to discrete variables and little work has been done to study the relation between discrete and continuous variables. A novel algorithm is proposed to calculate the mutual information between discrete and continuous variables. It is used to analyze the correlation between TCM syndromes and physicochemical parameters.展开更多
Thermographic technique can be used to measure temperature distribution of bo d y surface in real-time, non-contact and full-field, which has been successful ly used in medical diagnosis, remote sensing, and NDT, etc....Thermographic technique can be used to measure temperature distribution of bo d y surface in real-time, non-contact and full-field, which has been successful ly used in medical diagnosis, remote sensing, and NDT, etc. The authors have develo ped a thermographic experiment that can be applied to inspect the effect of acti on of acupuncture and qi-gong (a system of deep breathing exercises) by measuri n g the temperature of hand and arm. The observation is performed respectively by thermography for the dynamic changes of temperature of the arm and hand after ac upuncture treatment and qi-gong treatment. Thermographic results show that the t emperature on the collateral channels increases significantly. In the meantime, it can be seen that the above therapies of traditional Chinese medicine can stim ulate the channel collateral system. This also contributes a new basis to the ef fect of action of the therapies of traditional Chinese medicine. The work shows that thermographic technique is a powerful tool for research in traditional Chin ese medicine. In this paper, some thermal images are obtained from the persons t reated with acupuncture and qi-gong.展开更多
基金This work is supported by the Natural Science Fund of China under grant number 60301003, 60227101 and 60431020, and bythe Natural Science Fund of Beijing,under grant number 3052005,China
文摘Tongue diagnosis is one of the most precious and widely used diagnostic methods in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM). However, due to its subjective, qualitative and experience-dependent nature, the studies on tongue characterization have been widely emphasized. This paper surveys recent progresses in analysis of tongue manifestation. These new developments include the cross-network and cross-media color reproduction of tongue image, the automatic segmentation of tongue body based on knowledge, the automatic analysis of curdiness and griminess for the tongue fur and the automatic analysis of plumpness, wryness and dot -thorn of tongue body. The clinic experiments verify the validity of these new methods.
基金The research has been supported by National Basic Research Program of China(973 Grant 2003CB517106) MOSTProjects (No.2004DFB02100)
文摘Traditionally, differentiation of syndromes of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) mainly depends on the information obtained from four diagnosis methods. Now many physicochemical parameters are available in clinic. There exists great correlation between TCM syndromes and physicochemical parameters. The objective of the paper is to analyze the correlation between TCM syndromes and physicochemical parameters quantitatively. Correlation analysis has been widely studied and many analysis methods have been developed. Mutual information based on entropy can measure arbitrary dependence between variables. It has been applied to many kinds of fields, especially to pattern recognition. But most works are restricted to discrete variables and little work has been done to study the relation between discrete and continuous variables. A novel algorithm is proposed to calculate the mutual information between discrete and continuous variables. It is used to analyze the correlation between TCM syndromes and physicochemical parameters.
文摘Thermographic technique can be used to measure temperature distribution of bo d y surface in real-time, non-contact and full-field, which has been successful ly used in medical diagnosis, remote sensing, and NDT, etc. The authors have develo ped a thermographic experiment that can be applied to inspect the effect of acti on of acupuncture and qi-gong (a system of deep breathing exercises) by measuri n g the temperature of hand and arm. The observation is performed respectively by thermography for the dynamic changes of temperature of the arm and hand after ac upuncture treatment and qi-gong treatment. Thermographic results show that the t emperature on the collateral channels increases significantly. In the meantime, it can be seen that the above therapies of traditional Chinese medicine can stim ulate the channel collateral system. This also contributes a new basis to the ef fect of action of the therapies of traditional Chinese medicine. The work shows that thermographic technique is a powerful tool for research in traditional Chin ese medicine. In this paper, some thermal images are obtained from the persons t reated with acupuncture and qi-gong.
