舌诊是中医诊断疾病的重要方法。运用图像信息处理技术对数字舌图进行研究,研制计算机舌像分析系统,并在此基础上重新整理、规范与发现舌诊的诊断价值与诊断技术,是关系舌诊的继承与创新的重要工作。文章介绍了数字舌图和计算机舌像分析系统的研究现状,认为应使此项技术进入临床应用,运用图像分析技术和计算机舌像分析系统,开展舌诊的诊断信度、效度的临床调研,以促进中医舌诊的客观化、规范化、提高舌诊在现代临床医学中的诊断价值。本文系我刊2002年举办的首届中医药学术沙龙“中医理论的科学特点及其现代化、数字化”的主题报告之一。

Tongue diagnosis is an important way by which diseases are able to be diagnosed in traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) . It is a critical task concerning the inheritance and innovation of tongue diagnosis to study digital tongue image and develop computer analytical system of tongue image by the way of processing techniques of image information and then to sort out, standardize and discover new value and techniques of tongue diagnosis. In this article, the present situation in the study of digital tongue image and the computer analytical system of tongue image is briefed and it is maintained that this technology should be used to clinical treatment, applying processing techniques and computer analytical system of tongue image to the clinical survey of diagnostic reliability and validity so as to promote the objectivity and standardization of tongue diagnosis in TCM and to improve its diagnostic value in modem clinical medicine.This article is one of the key-note reports made at the first acadmic salon on traditional Chinese medicine and materia medica held by the Journal World Science and Technology in 2000.That conference put its theme on "Scientific characteristics, Modernization and Digitalization of TCM Theories".