Deep Convolutional Neural Networks for Classifying Body Constitution Based on Face Image.

Journal: Computational and mathematical methods in medicine
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Abstract

Body constitution classification is the basis and core content of traditional Chinese medicine constitution research. It is to extract the relevant laws from the complex constitution phenomenon and finally build the constitution classification system. Traditional identification methods have the disadvantages of inefficiency and low accuracy, for instance, questionnaires. This paper proposed a body constitution recognition algorithm based on deep convolutional neural network, which can classify individual constitution types according to face images. The proposed model first uses the convolutional neural network to extract the features of face image and then combines the extracted features with the color features. Finally, the fusion features are input to the Softmax classifier to get the classification result. Different comparison experiments show that the algorithm proposed in this paper can achieve the accuracy of 65.29% about the constitution classification. And its performance was accepted by Chinese medicine practitioners.

Authors

  • Er-Yang Huan
    School of Computer Science and Engineering, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou 510006, China.
  • Gui-Hua Wen
    School of Computer Science and Engineering, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou 510006, China.
  • Shi-Jun Zhang
    Department of TCM, The First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510080, China.
  • Dan-Yang Li
    School of Computer Science and Engineering, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou 510006, China.
  • Yang Hu
    Kweichow Moutai Co., Ltd, Renhuai, Guizhou 564501, China.
  • Tian-Yuan Chang
    School of Computer Science and Engineering, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou 510006, China.
  • Qing Wang
    School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Southwest Petroleum University, Chengdu 610500, China. qwang@163.com.
  • Bing-Lin Huang
    School of Computer Science and Engineering, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou 510006, China.