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Digital tongue image analyses for health assessment.
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18 citing papers in PubMed.
- Multidisciplinary intervention in frail elderly patients with cardiovascular diseases: a multicentre, single-blinded, randomised controlled trial.Nature communications · 2026Trial
- 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
- Artificial Intelligence and Digital Technologies in Prakriti Assessment: Toward Standardized Evidence-Based Ayurvedic Practice.Journal of Ayurveda and integrative medicine · 2026Review
- Digitally Assisted Clinical Decision-Making in Traditional Chinese Medicine: Comparative Study of 5 Large Language Models.JMIR formative research · 2026Article
- From mouth to muscle: mechanistic and interventional perspectives on the tongue-coating microbiome in sarcopenia.Journal of translational medicine · 2026Review
- Objective tongue phenotyping and nutritional risk in diabetic kidney disease: a dual-centre study linking quantified tongue features to the controlling nutritional status score.Frontiers in nutrition · 2026Article
- The association between tongue features and tongue coating microbiota and gastrointestinal cancer: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Journal of oral microbiology · 2026Review
- AI-driven tongue image analysis for diagnosing and predicting coronary artery disease.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- YOLOv13-SwinTongue: Tongue Coating Diagnosis Using an Enhanced YOLOv13 with Swin Transformer.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- An explainable dual-modal diagnostic model for coronary artery disease: a feature-gated approach using tongue and facial image features.Frontiers in artificial intelligence · 2025Article
- Automatic face detection based on bidirectional recurrent neural network optimized by improved Ebola optimization search algorithm.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- S5Utis: Structured State-Space Sequence SegNeXt UNet-like Tongue Image Segmentation in Traditional Chinese Medicine.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Tongue color parameters in predicting the degree of coronary stenosis: a retrospective cohort study of 282 patients with coronary angiography.Frontiers in cardiovascular medicine · 2024Article
- Tongue feature recognition to monitor rehabilitation: deep neural network with visual attention mechanism.Frontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology · 2024Article
- Visualization of Traditional Chinese Medicine Formulas: Development and Usability Study.JMIR formative research · 2023Article
- Objective evaluation of tongue diagnosis ability using a tongue diagnosis e-learning/e-assessment system based on a standardized tongue image database.Frontiers in medical technology · 2023Article
- Automatic tongue image quality assessment using a multi-task deep learning model.Frontiers in physiology · 2022Article
- A portable non-contact tongue imaging system with automated analysis for community and home settings.Digital healthArticle
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Abstract
Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), as an effective alternative medicine, utilizes tongue diagnosis as a major method to assess the patient's health status by examining the tongue's color, shape, and texture. Tongue images can also give the pre-disease indications without any significant disease symptoms, which provides a basis for preventive medicine and lifestyle adjustment. However, traditional tongue diagnosis has limitations, as the process may be subjective and inconsistent. Hence, computer-aided tongue diagnoses have a great potential to provide more consistent and objective health assessments. This paper reviewed the current trends in TCM tongue diagnosis, including tongue image acquisition hardware, tongue segmentation, feature extraction, color correction, tongue classification, and tongue diagnosis system. We also present a case of TCM constitution classification based on tongue images.
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