Reports Outline Gastrointestinal Diseases and Conditions Study Findings from Shandong University (Intelligent Tongue Diagnosis Model for Gastrointestinal Diseases Based On Tongue Images).

A study conducted by researchers at Shandong University in Jinan, China, has developed an intelligent tongue diagnosis model for gastrointestinal diseases based on tongue images. The researchers collected a dataset of tongue coating images from healthy individuals and patients with various gastrointestinal conditions. By utilizing hand-crafted and auto-encoded features, as well as disease detection mechanisms, the model achieved satisfactory performance in diagnosing gastrointestinal diseases, including Helicobacter pylori infection, bile reflux, reflux esophagitis, gastric erosion, and duodenal erosion. The study concludes that tongue diagnosis could be a convenient, cost-effective, and noninvasive method for diagnosing and screening gastrointestinal diseases. [Extracted from the article]