The smart diagnostic,therapeutic and educational device for traditional chinese medicine:A protocol study for an inventionbased on AI

Background: Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) has been practiced in China for more than۳۰۰۰ years and is widely used around the whole world nowadays. TCM exhibits significant efficacyagainst many diseases. The TCM therapist starts the diagnosis process by determining the patient’sdisharmony pattern with takes a medical history and examination, including checking thepulse and observing the tongue and sometimes the iris and etc. Then performs the treatment withvarious methods such as herbal therapy, acupuncture, tai chi, diet, acupressure and etc. Today,artificial intelligence(AI) has greatly contributed to the advancement of medicine. I expect thatthis smart device will achieve its diagnostic, therapeutic and educational goals with the help of AI.Methods: This smart device’s main parts include a pulse analysis sensor, a camera for tongue andiris analysis, a scanner and a cpu. First it takes a complete history of the patient with a standardquestionnaire. Then the received data of all part of device is matched with the database definedfor the device and then disharmony of the patient will be determined based on the concepts ofTCM. The attention mechanism aggregation module scores contribution of each symptom tosyndrome classification in a feature integration matrix by adopting an attention mechanism withan annealing coefficient by means of features of all symptoms and features of interaction informationamong the symptoms, and selects the symptoms with scores higher than a score thresholdto form a symptom group for syndrome classification diagnosis. According to the method, themost representative symptom group is selected for each type of syndromes. The treatment willbe provided to the patient in the form of a text file for diet and herbal therapy and videos for taichi and acupressure. For acupuncture treatment with the help of the intelligent voice assistant, byplacing the scanner of the device in a suitable position of the patient’s body, the desired points willbe identified with the anatomical landmarks and will be needeled by the device automatically. Thepossibility of electro acupuncture and needle manipulation will be available.Discussion: None of the diagnostic methods of TCM are complete alone, also the different perceptionof different therapists on the numerous diagnostic criteria of Chinese medicine causesdifferences in the quality of diagnosis and treatment. A validation study in ۲۰۲۲ done by TianyongHao and colleagues in china entitled “Artificial Intelligence–Based Traditional Chinese MedicineAssistive Diagnostic System” which is just based on Patient history. The difference of thisresearch with my plan is that in addition to the history of the patient, my device performs thediagnosis process by analyzing the pulse, tongue and iris, and then performs the treatment automaticallywith the help of its voice assistant. Reducing the diagnosis cost, will decrease Financialburden. Definitely, this smart device will be very useful for the educational use for Chinese medicinestudents due to its full coverage of the diagnosis and treatment process.

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traditional Chinese medicine ، artificial intelligence ، acupuncture ، smart device