Title
Convolutional herbal prescription building method from multi-scale facial features
Abstract
In Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), facial features are important basis for diagnosis and treatment. A doctor of TCM can prescribe according to a patient’s physical indicators such as face, tongue, voice, symptoms, pulse. Previous works analyze and generate prescription according to symptoms. However, research work to mine the association between facial features and prescriptions has not been found for the time being. In this work, we try to use deep learning methods to mine the relationship between the patient’s face and herbal prescriptions (TCM prescriptions), and propose to construct convolutional neural networks that generate TCM prescriptions according to the patient’s face image. It is a novel and challenging job. In order to mine features from different granularities of faces, we design a multi-scale convolutional neural network based on three-grained face, which mines the patient’s face information from the organs, local regions, and the entire face. Our experiments show that convolutional neural networks can learn relevant information from face to prescribe, and the multi-scale convolutional neural networks based on three-grained face perform better.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1007/s11042-019-08118-7
Multimedia Tools and Applications
Keywords
Field
DocType
Convolutional neural networks, Face, Prescription, Traditional Chinese medicine
Entire face,Pattern recognition,Convolutional neural network,Computer science,Artificial intelligence,Deep learning,Medical prescription
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
78
24
1380-7501
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
0
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Huiqiang Liao100.34
Guihua Wen2168.69
Yang Hu3103.61
Changjun Wang411.02