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Availability of Tongue Diagnosis System for Assessing Tongue Coating Thickness in Patients with Functional Dyspepsia

Authors :
Gajin Han
Dong-Hyun Nam
Jinsung Kim
Seok-Jae Ko
Seung-won Jang
Bong-Ha Ryu
Juyeon Kim
Ji-young Son
Jae-Woo Park
In-Kwon Yeo
Source :
Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine, Vol 2013 (2013), Evidence-based Complementary and Alternative Medicine : eCAM
Publication Year :
2013
Publisher :
Hindawi Publishing Corporation, 2013.

Abstract

Tongue diagnosis is an important procedure in traditional Korean medicine (TKM). In particular, tongue coating thickness (TCT) is deemed to show the progression of the disease. However, conventional tongue diagnosis has limitations because of various external factors. Therefore, it is necessary to investigate the availability of tongue diagnosis system (TDS) in the assessment of TCT. This study has been designed as a prospective clinical trial involving 60 patients with functional dyspepsia. Tongue images will be obtained by TDS twice with a 30 min interval. The system will measure the percentage of TCT and classify it as either no coating, thin coating, or thick coating according to the existing diagnostic criteria. After finishing the collection of 60 patients' tongue images, TCT on the images will be simultaneously evaluated by the conventional method to establish the gold standard for assessing TCT by 5 well-trained clinicians. The evaluation will be repeated by the same clinicians after 2 weeks, but the order of the images will be changed. This trial is expected to provide clinical evidence for the availability of TDS as a diagnostic tool and to contribute to the standardization of the diagnosis system used in TKM. This trial is registered with ClinicalTrials.govNCT01864837.

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
1741427X
Database :
OpenAIRE
Journal :
Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine
Accession number :
edsair.doi.dedup.....b18e502b341d389edff3907ffaf0fba0
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1155/2013/348272