title: The quantization of chinese deep pulse.
abstract: Clinic Chinese pulse diagnosis is done by using fingers to touch the radial artery on the wrist to get the floating, middle, and deep pulses. However, the pressure of deep pulse is not an absolute value. It depends on many individual factors, such as age, height, weight, sex, and flexibility of blood vessel. It is very difficult to make a correct judgment without sufficient experience. Each Chinese doctor always has different results from measuring blood pulses of radial artery. So how to make a quantitative method for Chinese pulse diagnosis is very important. In this paper, we propose a scheme using modified blood pressure monitor and oscillometric method to quantize and standardize the deep pulse. Our scheme provides a method which is independent of personal factors and could get better accuracy when compared with other methods for Chinese pulse diagnosis.
authors.affiliation: Dept. of Electr. Eng., Nat. Cheng Kung Univ., Tainan.
authors.forename: Cheng-Chi
authors.initials: CC
authors.lastname: Tai
authors.forename: Sen-Chang
authors.initials: SC
authors.lastname: Hwang
authors.forename: Song-Tao
authors.initials: ST
authors.lastname: Wang