Clinical Trial Summary
The diagnoses processes of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) focus on the following four
main types of diagnoses methods consisting of inspection, olfaction, inquiry, and palpation.
The most important one is palpation also called pulse diagnosis which is to measure wrist
artery pulse by TCM doctor's fingers to detect patient's health state. The pulse diagnosis
has three parts, namely 'Chun', 'Guan' and 'Chy', with the location. Wrist measurements
correspond to different parts of the body's organs. However, the pulse information is
analyzed by TCM doctor's pulse diagnoses process, which is picked only a single waveform from
a long-term pulse measured process and often discarded the other waveforms contained in the
same information, e.g. Slip Pulse waveform. The research object of this project is to divide
the TCM diagnosis patients into two groups, one is the Slip pulse group and the other is a
Flat Pulse group, in which the cases are collected at least 50 cases for the first gruop and
30 cases for the second group, individually. The purpose of this project will integrate the
TCM doctor's experiences and standardize them in order to construct an effective Slip pulse
diagnosis system based on visualization engineering platform. It could refine Slip pulse
diagnoses processes and reduce their diagnoses loading by using the proposed approach during
this project. Therefore, we will propose a similar Moiré feature analyzing approach based on
Recurrent Neural Network to process the measured Slip Pulse wave-images with 'Chun', 'Guan'
and 'Chy' in order to prepare this visualization engineering platform. We will measure the
waveform images of the three parts of the wrist as 'Chun', 'Guan' and 'Chy' with the moiré
feature technology proposed in this project. It mainly extracts the moiré features such as
pulse image from numerous measurement 'Chun', 'Guan' and 'Chy' signals, and further analyzes
and summarizes them with AI technology. We could extract the pulse characteristics of Slip
pulse automatically from the many measurement signals and enhance the automatic judging
ability of the current pulse instrument to the Slip pulse waveform. Provide important pulse
information to the TCM doctors as an important reference for precision clinical diagnoses.
