The study on Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM)by the technology and method of thermal science is a new cut in point in interdisciplinary science, and its purpose is to study the tongue inspection in TCM from the view...The study on Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM)by the technology and method of thermal science is a new cut in point in interdisciplinary science, and its purpose is to study the tongue inspection in TCM from the view of the bio heat transfer theory. In this paper human tongues were studied with the infrared thermal imaging technology. And the characteristic relationship between temperature distribution and age, tongue color as well as infrared thermal tongue image concerning the characteristic of viscera was analyzed by the experimental data,which confirms that the change in temperature distribution in different positions of the tongue is related to the diseases of different internal organs of the body. From a series of invasive experiments in animals, the blood perfusion rate was measured with the equipment of CBI 8000 Doppler Blood Flow Meter and MP 100 Physiologic Research System for the first time and the characteristic relationship curve between the temperature on the surface of the tongue and the blood perfusion rate was obtained. From the experiments the temperature on the surface of the tongue reflects objectively the tongue color which is influenced by the blood perfusion rate. This will help to develop some new cognition in the theory of TCM.展开更多
Objective To propose a Light-Atten-Pose-based algorithm for classifying abnormal morphol-ogy in traditional Chinese medicine(TCM)inspection to solve the problem of relying on manual labor or expensive equipment with p...Objective To propose a Light-Atten-Pose-based algorithm for classifying abnormal morphol-ogy in traditional Chinese medicine(TCM)inspection to solve the problem of relying on manual labor or expensive equipment with personal subjectivity or high cost.Methods First,this paper establishes a dataset of abnormal morphology for Chinese medi-cine diagnosis,with images from public resources and labeled with category labels by several Chinese medicine experts,including three categories:normal,shoulder abnormality,and leg abnormality.Second,the key points of human body are extracted by Light-Atten-Pose algo-rithm.Light-Atten-Pose algorithm uses lightweight EfficientNet network and polarized self-attention(PSA)mechanism on the basis of AlphaPose,which reduces the computation amount by using EfficientNet network,and the data is finely processed by using PSA mecha-nism in spatial and channel dimensions.Finally,according to the theory of TCM inspection,the abnormal morphology standard based on the joint angle difference is defined,and the classification of abnormal morphology of Chinese medical diagnosis is realized by calculat-ing the angle between key points.Accuracy,frames per second(FPS),model size,parameter set(Params),and giga floating-point operations per second(GFLOPs)are chosen as the eval-uation indexes for lightweighting.Results Validation of the Light-Atten-Pose algorithm on the dataset showed a classification accuracy of 96.23%,which is close to the original AlphaPose model.However,the FPS of the improved model reaches 41.6 fps from 16.5 fps,the model size is reduced from 155.11 MB to 33.67 MB,the Params decreases from 40.5 M to 8.6 M,and the GFLOPs reduces from 11.93 to 2.10.Conclusion The Light-Atten-Pose algorithm achieves lightweight while maintaining high ro-bustness,resulting in lower complexity and resource consumption and higher classification accuracy,and the experiments prove that the Light-Atten-Pose algorithm has a better overall performance and has practical application in the pose estimation task.展开更多
The autonomic nervous system (ANS) controls white blood cell (WBC) subsets;therefore, the status of ANS can be assessed by assaying WBCs. However, this requires invasive blood sampling, time, cost, and training. There...The autonomic nervous system (ANS) controls white blood cell (WBC) subsets;therefore, the status of ANS can be assessed by assaying WBCs. However, this requires invasive blood sampling, time, cost, and training. Therefore, this study focused on a traditional technique, tongue inspection, which is a simpler method. The purpose of this study was to investigate whether there is an association between the traditional method of tongue inspection and clinical assay of WBC subsets. Twenty-one female alopecia areata patients were divided into two age-matched groups: 1) alopecia areata totalis (AT);and 2) alopecia areata multiplex (AM). Images of patient tongues were captured by a digital camera and categorized before blood sampling. Finally, patients were divided into five groups (normal, Yin+, Yang–, Yin– and Yang+) based on the Eight Principles of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM). Concurrently, venous blood was obtained for WBC subsets. The absolute numbers of WBCs and granulocytes of the AT group were higher than those of the AM group. The AT group was Yin+ but not Yang+, whereas the AM group was Yang+ but not Yin+. Thus, the AT group showed more elements of “cold” (Yin > Yang) compared with the AM group with elements of “hot” (Yin < Yang). Tongue inspection suggested a possibility of consistence with those of WBCs although statistical significance was not obtained. Moreover, some Yin+ and Yang+ subjects showed some trend in similarities between tongue inspection and WBC subsets although this was not statistically significant. Therefore, traditional techniques (such as tongue inspection) acupuncture must be studied further to detect whether subtle effects are induced by acupuncture treatment. As this study is underpowered, a larger scale study including males is required in the future.展开更多
基金SupportedbyNationalNaturalScienceFoundationofChina(No.59976026ndTianjinNaturalScienceFoundation (No .0 0 36 0 771 1 )
文摘The study on Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM)by the technology and method of thermal science is a new cut in point in interdisciplinary science, and its purpose is to study the tongue inspection in TCM from the view of the bio heat transfer theory. In this paper human tongues were studied with the infrared thermal imaging technology. And the characteristic relationship between temperature distribution and age, tongue color as well as infrared thermal tongue image concerning the characteristic of viscera was analyzed by the experimental data,which confirms that the change in temperature distribution in different positions of the tongue is related to the diseases of different internal organs of the body. From a series of invasive experiments in animals, the blood perfusion rate was measured with the equipment of CBI 8000 Doppler Blood Flow Meter and MP 100 Physiologic Research System for the first time and the characteristic relationship curve between the temperature on the surface of the tongue and the blood perfusion rate was obtained. From the experiments the temperature on the surface of the tongue reflects objectively the tongue color which is influenced by the blood perfusion rate. This will help to develop some new cognition in the theory of TCM.
基金National Key Research and Development Program of China(2022YFC3502302)。
文摘Objective To propose a Light-Atten-Pose-based algorithm for classifying abnormal morphol-ogy in traditional Chinese medicine(TCM)inspection to solve the problem of relying on manual labor or expensive equipment with personal subjectivity or high cost.Methods First,this paper establishes a dataset of abnormal morphology for Chinese medi-cine diagnosis,with images from public resources and labeled with category labels by several Chinese medicine experts,including three categories:normal,shoulder abnormality,and leg abnormality.Second,the key points of human body are extracted by Light-Atten-Pose algo-rithm.Light-Atten-Pose algorithm uses lightweight EfficientNet network and polarized self-attention(PSA)mechanism on the basis of AlphaPose,which reduces the computation amount by using EfficientNet network,and the data is finely processed by using PSA mecha-nism in spatial and channel dimensions.Finally,according to the theory of TCM inspection,the abnormal morphology standard based on the joint angle difference is defined,and the classification of abnormal morphology of Chinese medical diagnosis is realized by calculat-ing the angle between key points.Accuracy,frames per second(FPS),model size,parameter set(Params),and giga floating-point operations per second(GFLOPs)are chosen as the eval-uation indexes for lightweighting.Results Validation of the Light-Atten-Pose algorithm on the dataset showed a classification accuracy of 96.23%,which is close to the original AlphaPose model.However,the FPS of the improved model reaches 41.6 fps from 16.5 fps,the model size is reduced from 155.11 MB to 33.67 MB,the Params decreases from 40.5 M to 8.6 M,and the GFLOPs reduces from 11.93 to 2.10.Conclusion The Light-Atten-Pose algorithm achieves lightweight while maintaining high ro-bustness,resulting in lower complexity and resource consumption and higher classification accuracy,and the experiments prove that the Light-Atten-Pose algorithm has a better overall performance and has practical application in the pose estimation task.
文摘The autonomic nervous system (ANS) controls white blood cell (WBC) subsets;therefore, the status of ANS can be assessed by assaying WBCs. However, this requires invasive blood sampling, time, cost, and training. Therefore, this study focused on a traditional technique, tongue inspection, which is a simpler method. The purpose of this study was to investigate whether there is an association between the traditional method of tongue inspection and clinical assay of WBC subsets. Twenty-one female alopecia areata patients were divided into two age-matched groups: 1) alopecia areata totalis (AT);and 2) alopecia areata multiplex (AM). Images of patient tongues were captured by a digital camera and categorized before blood sampling. Finally, patients were divided into five groups (normal, Yin+, Yang–, Yin– and Yang+) based on the Eight Principles of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM). Concurrently, venous blood was obtained for WBC subsets. The absolute numbers of WBCs and granulocytes of the AT group were higher than those of the AM group. The AT group was Yin+ but not Yang+, whereas the AM group was Yang+ but not Yin+. Thus, the AT group showed more elements of “cold” (Yin > Yang) compared with the AM group with elements of “hot” (Yin < Yang). Tongue inspection suggested a possibility of consistence with those of WBCs although statistical significance was not obtained. Moreover, some Yin+ and Yang+ subjects showed some trend in similarities between tongue inspection and WBC subsets although this was not statistically significant. Therefore, traditional techniques (such as tongue inspection) acupuncture must be studied further to detect whether subtle effects are induced by acupuncture treatment. As this study is underpowered, a larger scale study including males is required in the future.
