World Science and Technology-Modernization of Traditional Chinese Medicine 2015;(2):400-404

doi:10.11842/wst.2015.02.019

Research Progress on Traditional Chinese Medicine Facial Diagnosis Information Acquisition and Recognition

Hongkai ZHANG ; Fufeng LI

Keywords

Facial diagnosis; information acquisition; information recognition; clinical application

Country

China

Language

Chinese

Abstract

This paper reviewed researches reported in the last 10 years on traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) facial diagnosis information acquisition and recognition. It summarized the information acquisition environment, facial segmentation method, recognition method and analysis of facial characteristics. Some clinical application examples based on modern consultation technologies were enumerated. Meanwhile, analysis was made on shortcomings of TCM facial diagnosis. It showed direction for its in-depth study.