tongue image consulting system based on deep learning technology has created a more perfect and intelligent

personal health management system by connecting smart devices to mobile platforms. The system will serve

customers perfectly through health food therapy, medical consultation, etc.

Received: March 2, 2023. Revised: October 21, 2023. Accepted: November 11, 2023. Published: January 26, 2024.

In more than 1000 years, CTM diagnoses by tongue

tongue image consultation. So the development of a

TCM tongue health consulting system based on

deep learning technology comes into being.

2.1 The Function of the CTM Tongue Image

objective. The health of customer will be protected

are based on western theories and relevant concepts.

The treasure TCM has not yet been carried forward

has spread and developed with the process of

history. It has formed a set of solid and unique

TCM theory and clinical application system.

Compared with western medicine, TCM emphasizes

the diagnosis and treatment system of western

medicine, [2], [3].

Emerging industries formed by the "Internet +" and

integration and upgrading with traditional industries

will be the important economic growth point of

expanding consumption and promoting

employment. From the perspective of industrial

large amount of information, the degree of

information asymmetry between consumers and

range of residents' consumption has been greatly

expanded. Residents can use social mobile networks

to unite. They begin to participate in all commercial

links of production and consumption after solving

the problems of dispersion and isolation to

interconnection. They can truly become the leading

force of production and consumption. [4], so the

The diagnostic technology of traditional TCM is

well known around the world. The four diagnostic

methods including looking, listening, questioning,

and feeling pulse have been widely used for

thousands of years. Tongue diagnosis is an

important step to look for diagnosis. It is an

innovatively applies deep learning technology to

analyze and judge tongue photos. It is shown in

Figure 1, [8].

diagnosis software is to take photos of users'

tongues through smart phones. Then the health of

the user can be judged through the software’s

practice of TCM to further improve the accuracy of

disease judgment and the pertinence of the

a small-scale tongue dataset, they also applied U-

Net for fast tongue segmentation, and achieved the

highest accuracy of 98.45% and consumed 0.267 s

per picture on average, [16].

exploring to extract the ultrasound tongue contour

using the U-Net, and superior performance has been

obtained, [17].

tongue image is listed in Table 1. [18], [19], TCM 9

tongue model classification can lead to different

health statuses. Through different classification,

and muscle layer. In most cases, it can be seen as a

changeful curve structure on the surface of the

of the atrophy and lesions of the tongue mucosa.

Also, the quantitative value of the fissured tongue

[20].

be taken into account considering the image of all

Thirdly, regarding chronic diseases, dietary

TCM. It focuses on cancer, hypertension, diabetes,

recommendations will also be done base on main

monitoring dietary calories is also developed at the

recipes or photos of dishes is included. According to

NIH or popular light fasting banting), the user’s diet

in Figure 3, [21].

exercise suggestions, etc. User questions could also

be answered at the same time.

The platform can become a platform for

professionals and buyers to communicate. Local

TCM clinics can not only sell relevant health care

products online, including health care equipment,

platform, and portal to develop will realize unified

background management and use the same database.

individuals and families, customized private health

account for users and dynamic monitoring for

individual users. The main functions are shown

below.

The website regularly publishes video courses on

regimen, TCM exercise regimen and TCM physical

through the way of inviting experts and doctors to

obtain valuable information such as popular

health care of TCM and sports health care of TCM,

information and communication channels of the

relevant medical institution and expert physicians

through an effective connection with relevant

[7] Jiacheng Xie, Congcong Jing, Ziyang Zhang,

[13] Zhang Q, Zhou J, Zhang B. Computational

[14] Huang Y, Lai Z, Wang W, editors. TU-Net: a

[17] Zhu J, Styler W, Calloway I. A CNN-based