Can a Holistic View Facilitate the Development of Intelligent Traditional Chinese Medicine? A Survey

Guihua Tian*, Kun Qian*, Xinyi Li, Mengkai Sun, Hao Jiang, Wanyong Qiu, Xiaoming Xie, Zhonghao Zhao, Liangqing Huang, Siyan Luo, Tianxing Guo, Ran Cai, Zhihua Wang, Bjorn W. Schuller

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Abstract

Intelligent traditional Chinese medicine (ITCM) is an emerging interdisciplinary subject. It aims to efficiently and precisely promote the prevention and treatment of diseases and health management in Chinese medicine clinical practice via the combination of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) fundamentals and artificial intelligence technologies. Presently, it is experiencing dramatic growth in recent years. On the one hand, a holistic view, as a crucial philosophy in the theory of TCM, will be guiding the development of ITCM. On the other hand, a comprehensive discussion of the benefits of such a holistic view of ITCM is lacking. To this end, we conduct this survey by introducing the named holistic view first. Then, adaptive learning and field theory will be presented and discussed with respect to their application in ITCM. Ethical issues of ITCM will then be taken into account by human-centered TCM and potentials based on affective computing of ITCM. In addition, we give our opinions and insights on the challenges and open issues regarding the future of ITCM. We hope that this survey article can be a good guide for experts in the relevant fields.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)700-713
Number of pages14
JournalIEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems
Volume10
Issue number2
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Apr 2023

Keywords

  • Artificial intelligence (AI)
  • Medicine 4.0
  • digital health
  • holistic view
  • intelligent traditional Chinese medicine (ITCM)

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