ReviewIntegrative medicine research2019
Advances in automated tongue diagnosis techniques.
Review in Integrative medicine research, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT04559958 (Tongue Inspection and Diagnosis for Chronic Kidney Disease), which is not on this map. Cited by 26 papers.
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Tongue Inspection and Diagnosis for Chronic Kidney Disease: Protocol for a Cross-sectional, Case-controlled Observational Study
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26 citing papers in PubMed.
- From Traditional Inspection to Quantitative Imaging: Tongue and Facial Color Features for Automated Machine Learning-Driven Depression and Schizophrenia Classification.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
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- Temperature and humidity-dependent interaction effects on tongue color in diabetic patients: a quantitative analysis and TCM perspective.Frontiers in endocrinology · 2026Article
- Computerized tongue image analysis for non-invasive disease screening: a review.Chinese medicine · 2025Review
- Tongue Image-Based Diagnosis of Acute Respiratory Tract Infection Using Machine Learning: Algorithm Development and Validation.JMIR medical informatics · 2025Article
- Characteristics of tongue images and tongue coating bacteria in patients with colorectal cancer.BMC microbiology · 2025Article
- TonguExpert: A Deep Learning-Based Algorithm Platform for Fine-Grained Extraction and Classification of Tongue Phenotypes.Phenomics (Cham, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Tongue shape classification based on IF-RCNet.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Lightweight YOLOv8 for tongue teeth marks and fissures detection based on C2f_DCNv3.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Digital intelligence technology: new quality productivity for precision traditional Chinese medicine.Frontiers in pharmacology · 2025Review
- Temporal changes in tongue color during immune checkpoint inhibitor therapy in patients with non-small-cell lung cancer: a prospective observational study using digital tongue diagnosis.Oncology reviews · 2025Article
- Machine learning-assisted tongue image analysis for the diagnosis of Hashimoto's thyroiditis.Frontiers in medicine · 2025Article
- Artificial intelligence in acupuncture: bridging traditional knowledge and precision integrative medicine.Frontiers in medicine · 2025Review
- Development of an artificial intelligent model for pre-endoscopic screening of precancerous lesions in gastric cancer.Chinese medicine · 2024Article
- Artificial intelligence in tongue diagnosis: classification of tongue lesions and normal tongue images using deep convolutional neural network.BMC medical imaging · 2024Article
- Noninvasive Diagnostic Technique for Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease Based on Features of Tongue Images.Chinese journal of integrative medicine · 2024Article
- Dark red tongue color formation caused by hyperglycemia is attributed to decreased blood flow of tongue tissue partially due to nuclear factor-kappa B pathway activation.Journal of traditional Chinese medicine = Chung i tsa chih ying wen pan · 2023Article
- Development of a tongue image-based machine learning tool for the diagnosis of gastric cancer: a prospective multicentre clinical cohort study.EClinicalMedicine · 2023Article
- Tongue diagnosis index of chronic kidney disease.Biomedical journal · 2023Observational
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Abstract
Tongue diagnosis can be an effective, noninvasive method to perform an auxiliary diagnosis any time anywhere, which can support the global need in the primary healthcare system. This work reviews the recent advances in tongue diagnosis, which is a significant constituent of traditional oriental medicinal technology, and explores the literature to evaluate the works done on the various aspects of computerized tongue diagnosis, namely preprocessing, tongue detection, segmentation, feature extraction, tongue analysis, especially in traditional Chinese medicine (TCM). In spite of huge volume of work done on automatic tongue diagnosis (ATD), there is a lack of adequate survey, especially to combine it with the current diagnosis trends. This paper studies the merits, capabilities, and associated research gaps in current works on ATD systems. After exploring the algorithms used in tongue diagnosis, the current trend and global requirements in health domain motivates us to propose a conceptual framework for the automated tongue diagnostic system on mobile enabled platform. This framework will be able to connect tongue diagnosis with the future point-of-care health system.
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