Title :
Medical application of fuzzy theory to the diagnostic system of tongue inspection in traditional Chinese medicine
Author :
Watsuji, Tadashi ; Arita, Seizaburo ; Shinohara, Shoji ; Kitade, Toshikatsu
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Basic Oriental Med., Meiji Univ. of Oriental Med., Kyoto, Japan
Abstract :
Traditional Chinese medicine has a systematized methodology of medical treatment, based subjective information from the five senses. We proposed a diagnostic system for tongue inspection using fuzzy theory and applied this system to healthy volunteers based on traditional Chinese medicine. This system diagnosed syndromes such as deficiency syndrome, excess syndrome, coldness syndrome, and heat syndrome. We mainly focused on the evaluation of the coldness syndrome and the heat syndrome. The results suggested that this diagnostic system is useful for tongue inspection of traditional Chinese medicine.
Keywords :
fuzzy systems; knowledge based systems; medical image processing; patient diagnosis; coldness syndrome; deficiency syndrome; diagnostic system; excess syndrome; fuzzy theory; heat syndrome; tongue inspection; traditional Chinese medicine; Biomedical equipment; Fuzzy systems; Inspection; Medical diagnosis; Medical diagnostic imaging; Medical services; Medical treatment; Pathology; Performance analysis; Tongue;
Conference_Titel :
Fuzzy Systems Conference Proceedings, 1999. FUZZ-IEEE '99. 1999 IEEE International
Conference_Location :
Seoul, South Korea
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-5406-0
DOI :
10.1109/FUZZY.1999.793222