The outward appearance of human tongue can reflect changes in blood circulation caused by pathological states, and it has been used as an assisted method for clinical diseases diagnosis for thousands of years in China. The purpose of this study is to...
BMC medical informatics and decision making
Feb 18, 2025
AIMS: Diabetic peripheral neuropathy (DPN) is the most common complication of diabetes mellitus. Early identification of individuals at high risk of DPN is essential for successful early intervention. Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) tongue diagnos...
Supernumerary Robotic Limbs (SRLs) are designed to collaborate with the wearer, enhancing operational capabilities. When human limbs are occupied with primary tasks, controlling SRLs flexibly and naturally becomes a challenge. Existing methods such a...
IEEE transactions on bio-medical engineering
Jan 15, 2025
Increasing the independence of individuals with tetraplegia is a challenging task. One potential solution is to allow for use of an assistive robotic manipulator (ARM), when solving tasks in personal and remote space. There is a lack in available con...
Stroke has become the leading cause of disability in adults worldwide. Early precise rehabilitation intervention is crucial for the recovery of stroke patients, with the key lying in accurately identifying patients' physical characteristics during th...
Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology
Nov 4, 2024
BACKGROUND: This study aimed to characterize the oral and gut microbiota in prediabetes mellitus (Pre-DM) and type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) patients while exploring the association between tongue manifestations and the oral-gut microbiota axis in d...
OBJECTIVES: Maintenance of oral muscle functions is important for survival and communication. Utilizing Artificial Intelligence (AI) as a self-health-management material has shown promise. Here we developed a functional and AI-enabled smartphone e-Or...
The human tongue has been long believed to be a window to provide important insights into a patient's health in medicine. The present study introduced a novel approach to predict patient age, gender, and weight inferences based on tongue images using...
BACKGROUND: As an important part of the tongue, the tongue coating is closely associated with different disorders and has major diagnostic benefits. This study aims to construct a neural network model that can perform complex tongue coating segmentat...
OBJECTIVES: To develop and validate machine learning (ML) and deep learning (DL) models using drug-induced sleep endoscopy (DISE) images to predict the therapeutic efficacy of hypoglossal nerve stimulator (HGNS) implantation.
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