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Objectification of Tongue Diagnosis in Traditional Medicine, Data Analysis, and Study Application
Published on: April 14, 2023
Research and application of tongue and face diagnosis based on deep learning
Li Feng1, Zong Hai Huang1, Yan Mei Zhong1
1Chengdu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine College of Intelligent Medicine, Chengdu, Sichuan, China.
Objective:
To explore the technical research and application characteristics of deep learning in tongue-facial diagnosis.
Methods:
Through summarizing the merits and demerits of current image processing techniques used in the traditional medical tongue and face diagnosis, the research status of deep learning in tongue image preprocessing, segmentation, and classification was analyzed and reviewed, and the algorithm was compared and verified with the real tongue and face image. Images of the face and tongue used for diagnosis in conventional medicine were systematically reviewed, from acquisition and pre-processing to segmentation, classification, algorithm comparison, result from analysis, and application.
Results:
Deep learning improved the speed and accuracy of tongue and face diagnostic image data processing. Among them, the average intersection ratio of U-net and Seg-net models exceeded 0.98, and the segmentation speed ranged from 54 to 58 ms.
Conclusion:
There is no unified standard for lingual-facial diagnosis objectification in terms of image acquisition conditions and image processing methods, thus further research is indispensable. It is feasible to use the images acquired by mobile in the field of medical image analysis by reducing the influence of environmental and other factors on the quality of lingual-facial diagnosis images and improving the efficiency of image processing.
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