[1]FENG Bing,LI Shaozi.Unsupervised clustering analysis of human-pulse signal in traditional Chinese medicine[J].CAAI Transactions on Intelligent Systems,2018,13(4):564-570.[doi:10.11992/tis.201703030]
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CAAI Transactions on Intelligent Systems[ISSN 1673-4785/CN 23-1538/TP] Volume:
13
Number of periods:
2018 4
Page number:
564-570
Column:
学术论文—机器学习
Public date:
2018-07-05
- Title:
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Unsupervised clustering analysis of human-pulse signal in traditional Chinese medicine
- Author(s):
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FENG Bing; LI Shaozi
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School of Information Science and Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361000, China
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- Keywords:
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pulse diagnosis; machine learning; unsupervised learning; clustering analysis; DTCWT; TCM objectification; MFCC; FCM
- CLC:
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TP391.4
- DOI:
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10.11992/tis.201703030
- Abstract:
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With the development of a more objective basis for traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), objectivity and instrumentation are growing trends in pulse-taking techniques. However, choosing an objective method for interpreting the data collected by newly developed TCM diagnostic machines is a recurring issue in the move toward objective pulse-taking diagnosis. Traditional machine learning methods rely heavily on annotated pulse-diagnosis data; however, in TCM practice, different doctors make different annotations based on their different experiences in pulse manifestation. After comparing various feature extraction methods and clustering schemes, in this paper, we propose an improved unsupervised human-pulse identification approach. In this method, we use the dual-tree complex wavelet transform (DTCWT) to preprocess data and Mel-frequency cepstral coefficients (MFCCs) to extract features. Before the data are annotated by TCM experts, we applied the fuzzy c-means (FCM) clustering algorithm to the signal features to classify thick lines, after which further detailed classifications can be made. The experimental results show that excellent classification effects can be obtained by this method, which provides an objective basis for TCM pulse diagnosis.