随着社会经济、科学技术的发展和生活环境的变化，人们对健康内涵的认识不断深化。医学界逐渐由关注人的疾病转向关注人的健康。因此，如何客观、准确的评鉴健康及其相关评价指标的确立显得尤为重要。中医独特的四诊合参、辨证论治的个体化诊疗体系注重人体由阴阳、气血津液的盛衰虚实变化导致的个体差异。其差异性与其体质密切相关，是健康评价的途径之一。在健康人群、亚健康人群及患者中进行健康状态评估及体质辨识，可使受试者全面、清楚的了解自身体质特征，对其日常养生保健及疾病预防起着重要作用。中医四诊合参辅助诊疗系统以其数字化、客观化的独特优势，准确高效的获取受试者信息，并根据中医理论进行评估对诊断信息进行自动提取与识别。该系统将成为中医诊断及健康评估的重要环节。

Along with social development, scientific improvement and environmental changes, the understanding of health has been deepened. The focus has been transformed from disease-oriented to health-oriented. Hence, it is important to evaluate health with objective and accurate criteria. The four diagnoses methods and syndrome differentiation are focused on differences among individuals according to the yin, yang, qi and blood condition. These differences are closely related to one's constitution. The promotion of constitution identification among healthy and subhealth group and patients is benefiting for subjects to understand their body characteristics. It is important in daily health cultivation and disease prevention. The application of TCM Four Diagnosis Auxiliary Apparatus acquires subjects' digital and objective information efficiently and accurately. The automatic extraction and recognition of all the information become an important step in the TCM diagnosis and constitution identification.

国家重点基础研究计划（“973”计划）（2011CB505400）：中医原创思维与健康状态辨识方法体系研究，负责人：王琦；科学技术部“十一五”国家科技支撑计划项目（2007BAI07A23）：便携式四诊合参辅助诊疗仪，负责人：杨学智；教育部创新工程重大项目培育资金（v200801）：指感施压和微阵列传感的脉诊信息获取技术，负责人：牛欣；科学技术部“十五”国家科技攻关项目（2004BA721A09）：中医脉诊信息提取与识别关键技术，负责人：牛欣。