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Main Authors: Zhang, Yongcun, Xu, Jiajun, He, Yina, Li, Shaozi, Luo, Zhiming, Lei, Huangwei
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Published: 2024
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.16451
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author Zhang, Yongcun
Xu, Jiajun
He, Yina
Li, Shaozi
Luo, Zhiming
Lei, Huangwei
author_facet Zhang, Yongcun
Xu, Jiajun
He, Yina
Li, Shaozi
Luo, Zhiming
Lei, Huangwei
contents Tongue diagnosis in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) is a crucial diagnostic method that can reflect an individual's health status. Traditional methods for identifying tooth-marked tongues are subjective and inconsistent because they rely on practitioner experience. We propose a novel fully automated Weakly Supervised method using Vision transformer and Multiple instance learning WSVM for tongue extraction and tooth-marked tongue recognition. Our approach first accurately detects and extracts the tongue region from clinical images, removing any irrelevant background information. Then, we implement an end-to-end weakly supervised object detection method. We utilize Vision Transformer (ViT) to process tongue images in patches and employ multiple instance loss to identify tooth-marked regions with only image-level annotations. WSVM achieves high accuracy in tooth-marked tongue classification, and visualization experiments demonstrate its effectiveness in pinpointing these regions. This automated approach enhances the objectivity and accuracy of tooth-marked tongue diagnosis. It provides significant clinical value by assisting TCM practitioners in making precise diagnoses and treatment recommendations. Code is available at https://github.com/yc-zh/WSVM.
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spellingShingle Weakly Supervised Object Detection for Automatic Tooth-marked Tongue Recognition
Zhang, Yongcun
Xu, Jiajun
He, Yina
Li, Shaozi
Luo, Zhiming
Lei, Huangwei
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Tongue diagnosis in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) is a crucial diagnostic method that can reflect an individual's health status. Traditional methods for identifying tooth-marked tongues are subjective and inconsistent because they rely on practitioner experience. We propose a novel fully automated Weakly Supervised method using Vision transformer and Multiple instance learning WSVM for tongue extraction and tooth-marked tongue recognition. Our approach first accurately detects and extracts the tongue region from clinical images, removing any irrelevant background information. Then, we implement an end-to-end weakly supervised object detection method. We utilize Vision Transformer (ViT) to process tongue images in patches and employ multiple instance loss to identify tooth-marked regions with only image-level annotations. WSVM achieves high accuracy in tooth-marked tongue classification, and visualization experiments demonstrate its effectiveness in pinpointing these regions. This automated approach enhances the objectivity and accuracy of tooth-marked tongue diagnosis. It provides significant clinical value by assisting TCM practitioners in making precise diagnoses and treatment recommendations. Code is available at https://github.com/yc-zh/WSVM.
title Weakly Supervised Object Detection for Automatic Tooth-marked Tongue Recognition
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.16451