Visualization Techniques for Tongue Analysis in Traditional Chinese Medicine

Pham, Binh L. and Cai, Yang (2004) Visualization Techniques for Tongue Analysis in Traditional Chinese Medicine . In Proceedings The Medical Imaging 2004: Visualization, Image Guided Procedures and Display, San Diego, California..

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Abstract

Visual inspection of the tongue has been an important diagnostic method of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM). Clinic data have shown significant connections between various viscera cancers and abnormalities in the tongue and the tongue coating. Visual inspection of the tongue is simple and inexpensive, but the current practice in TCM is mainly experience-based and the quality of the visual inspection varies between individuals. The computerized inspection method provides quantitative models to evaluate color, texture and surface features on the tongue. In this paper, we investigate visualization techniques and processes to allow interactive data analysis with the aim to merge computerized measurements with human expert's diagnostic variables based on five-scale diagnostic conditions: Healthy (H), History Cancers (HC), History of Polyps (HP), Polyps (P) and Colon Cancer (C).

Item Type:	Conference Paper
Status:	Published
Refereed:	No
Keywords:	visualisation; Traditional Chinese Medicine; tongue analysis; parallel coordinates; fuzzy set;
Subjects:	280000 Information, Computing and Communication Sciences > 280200 Artificial Intelligence and Signal and Image Processing > 280212 Neural Networks, Genetic Alogrithms and Fuzzy Logic
ID Code:	448
Deposited By:	Barnes, Cassy
Deposited On:	13 October 2004
Alternative Locations:	http://www.spie.org/Conferences/Programs/04/mi/
Copyright Owner::	Copyright 2004 (Please consult author)