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A Distinguishing Arterial Pulse Waves Approach by Using Image Processing and Feature Extraction Technique

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Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) is based on five main types of diagnoses methods consisting of inspection, auscultation, olfaction, inquiry, and palpation. The most important one is palpation also called pulse diagnosis which is to measure wrist artery pulse by doctor’s fingers for detecting patient’s health state. In this paper, it is carried out by using a specialized pulse measuring instrument to classify one’s pulse type. The measured pulse waves (MPWs) were segmented into the arterial pulse wave curve (APWC) by image proposing method. The slopes and periods among four specific points on the APWC were taken to be the pulse features. Three algorithms are proposed in this paper, which could extract these features from the APWCs and compared their differences between each of them to the average feature matrix, individually. These results show that the method proposed in this study is superior and more accurate than the previous studies. The proposed method could significantly save doctors a large amount of time, increase accuracy and decrease data volume.

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Acknowledgments

This work was supported by the Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST), Taiwan, Republic of China, under Grant MOST 104-2221-E-468-002.

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  1. Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, Asia University, Wufeng, Taichung City, Taiwan

    Hsing-Chung Chen & Shyi-Shiun Kuo

  2. Department of Medical Research, China Medical University Hospital, China Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan

    Hsing-Chung Chen

  3. Department of Multimedia Animation and Application, Nan Kai University of Technology, Caotun, Nantou County, Taiwan

    Shyi-Shiun Kuo

  4. Department of Chinese Medicine, Show-Chwan Memorial Hospital, Changhua, Taiwan

    Shen-Ching Sun

  5. Department of International Business, Asia University, Taichung, Taiwan

    Chia-Hui Chang

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Chen, HC., Kuo, SS., Sun, SC. et al. A Distinguishing Arterial Pulse Waves Approach by Using Image Processing and Feature Extraction Technique. J Med Syst 40, 215 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10916-016-0568-4

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