Biometrics Based Tongue Diagnosis of TCM

摘要

Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) has a history of thousands of years and accumulated very rich practical experiences in diagnostic methods. Tongue diagnosis is one of the most widely used diagnosis methods in TCM and is valuable in clinic application. Tongue diagnosis can not only prompt the pathological changes, the positions and degrees of the changes, but also can find what the modern medical equipment such as B ultrasonic, CT and NMR can not. It can also propose the corresponding cure process in time. In the modern automated world, there is an ever-growing need to develop an automatic tongue diagnosis system based on image processing and pattern recognition. Therefor, we had firstly introduced the biometrics technology into tongue diagnosis and gotten much success.