Modernization of Traditional Chinese Medicine Diagnosis Based on Modern Information Technologies

摘要

Chinese medical physicians obtain the patient's syndroms through inspection, auscultation and olfaction, inquiring, palpation(called si zhen in Chinese); and diagnose disease though 'syndrome differentiation'. Acquirement and integration of si zhen information are implemented according to personal knowledge and experience, which will lead to TCM diagnosis to be affected by subjective factors inevitably. Modern Information Technique is applied to TCM diagnosis, which has practical significance to help the objective of TCM diagnosis. This paper is aimed to illustrate the methods and status of objective research of TCM diagnosis. Firstly the objective, accurate and stable acquirement of si zhen information is demonstrated in this paper, then the practical and effective feature extraction and selection of si zhen information is discussed, lastly the pattern recognition and classification of syndrome in TCM diagnosis is presented.