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Psoriasis is a chronic inflammatory skin disease that have bad effects on the quality of life of the patients. As psoriasis is intractable and its cause is difficult to discover, Traditional Chinese Medicine is proved in China to be a more effective medical way. In Chinese Medicine, decision on prescription is based on ZHENG rather than disease. Only after successful differentiation of ZHENG, can...
Nowadays, mobile technologies have changed the patient routine health care and management. With a large amount of mobile health applications developed, massive and valuable health data are possibly collected with a smart mobile phone in hand. Facial color images are recently proved to be available and effective for health condition diagnosis both in modern medicine and ancient medicine perspectives...
Clinical records are the firsthand and vital evidences for Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) research. With deep Chinese culture background and years of clinical experience, a TCM clinical expert usually has his or her unique diagnostic methods. Preserving clinical cases of high-experienced TCM practitioners in their original tastes and exploring the in-depth knowledge is thus an important but arduous...
Clinical data describing a patient's health status can be multi-labelled. For example, a clinical record describing patient suffering from cough and fever should be tagged with both two disease labels. These co-occurred labels often have interrelation which can be exploited to improve disease classifications. In this work, we treat the categorization of free clinical text as a multi-label learning...
Tongue diagnosis is one of the most important instruments in traditional Chinese medicine (TCM). While the tongue body segmentation acts an indispensable role in the automatic tongue diagnosis system. This study utilizes geodesic active contour model (level set function) to forward a novel segmentation approach. The tongue image is firstly divided into two parts according to the prior knowledge of...
Purpose: The analysis of syndrome distribution and the association between syndrome-syndrome in chronic gastritis (CG) patients can provide references for research about Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) diagnosis and treatment of CG. Method: This paper applies the investigation method of clinical epidemiology, adopts probability statistics method and comes up with the concept of associated density...
Coronary heart disease (CHD) is a common cardiovascular disease in the elderly, which causes high death rate and low cure rate. Therefore, the TCM diagnosis objectification is important. This paper proposes the Relative Associated Density (RAD) method to analyze the data set. RAD results of the symptoms to syndromes are used in performing feature selection, and the prediction results with different...
In TCM theory, brightness and moisture is recognized as the Qi , blue red yellow white and black is recognized as the color, the five colors charges blood, the gloss charges Shen. We may diagnose the internal organs' essence by observing the changes of face gloss, which is a very important way to judge the condition and extrapolate the prognosis. However, because of lacking of objective data, the...
Clinical records of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) practitioners, especially those of masters or veteran practitioners, are precious materials for the TCM researchers and juniors. A novel TCM platform for Materspsila experience sharing (named TCM-PMES), which preserves the clinical processes of masters is provided. Unfiltered experience of TCM masters is maintained as complete as possible. Functional...
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