Publications by authors named "Liping Tu"

Background: Anemia is a global public health issue causing symptoms such as fatigue, weakness, and cognitive decline. Furthermore, anemia is associated with various diseases and increases the risk of postoperative complications and mortality. Frequent invasive blood tests for diagnosis also pose additional discomfort and risks to patients.

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  • * Researchers analyzed data from 30 prediabetes patients, 37 type 2 diabetes patients, and 28 healthy controls, using tongue images and fecal samples to build predictive models for diagnosing diabetes.
  • * Results showed clear differences in tongue characteristics linked to diabetes progression, with a machine learning model achieving 78.9% accuracy, highlighting the potential of tongue features and specific microbiota as diagnostic tools for prediabetes and type 2 diabetes.
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Precisely controlling the product selectivity of a reaction is an important objective in organic synthesis. α-Ketoamides are vital intermediates in chemical transformations and privileged motifs in numerous drugs, natural products, and biologically active molecules. The selective synthesis of α-ketoamides from feedstock chemicals in a safe and operationally simple manner under mild conditions is a long-standing catalysis challenge.

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  • Metabolic associated fatty liver disease (MAFLD) can cause serious liver issues, making early diagnosis crucial for treatment.
  • A study analyzed tongue images and gut bacteria from 92 MAFLD patients and 74 healthy individuals, using advanced technology to create a highly accurate screening model for MAFLD.
  • The findings identified specific bacteria as potential biomarkers for MAFLD and demonstrated that a combination of tongue analysis and microbiome data can improve diagnostic accuracy up to 96.39%.
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Reducing the south and reinforcing the north method (RSRN) has a positive effect on atherosclerosis disease. However, there is a lack of objective standards based on the quantification of 4 diagnostic methods in evaluating the improvement or effectiveness of the treatment. This study aimed to explore the quantitative evaluation of the therapeutic effect of RSRN on postmenopausal atherosclerosis based on the 4 diagnostic methods.

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Background: Tongue diagnosis is a crucial traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) inspection method for TCM syndrome differentiation and treatment.

Objective: The primary research focus was on tongue image characteristic parameters of patients with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). Analysis of the tongue image parameters of various pathological stages of NSCLC provides technical support for establishing an integrated Chinese and Western auxiliary diagnosis and efficacy evaluation medicine system for lung cancer that integrates tongue image features.

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Theoretically pulse wave velocity (PWV) is obtained by calculating the distance between two waveform probes divided by the time difference, and PWV ratio is used to assess the arterial stiffness gradient (SG) from proximal to distal. The aim was to investigate segmental upper-limb PWV (ulPWV) differences and the effects of hypertension and or aging on each ulPWV and SG. The study collected multi-waveform signals and conduction distances from 167 healthy individuals and 92 hypertensive patients.

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Background: The sublingual vein (SV) is a specialized diagnostic method used in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM). Despite its ability to objectively reflect blood flow, SV is often overlooked in clinical practice.

Objective: This study aims to analyze the core characteristics of SV and investigate the in-depth relationship between its digital characteristics and hypertension.

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Subhealth is a transitional state between health and disease, and it can be detected through routine physical check-ups. However, the complexity and diversity of physical examination items and the difficulty of quantifying subhealth manifestations are the main problems that hinder its treatment. The aim of this study was to systematically investigate the physical examination performance of the subhealthy population and further explore the deeper relationships between indicators.

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Background And Objective: Polycystic ovary syndrome is one of the most common types of endocrine and metabolic diseases in women of reproductive age that needs to be screened early and assessed non-invasively. The objective of the current study was to develop prediction models for polycystic ovary syndrome based on data of tongue and pulse using machine learning techniques.

Methods: A dataset of 285 polycystic ovary syndrome patients and 201 healthy women were investigated to identify the significant tongue and pulse parameters for predicting polycystic ovary syndrome.

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To investigate the tongue image features of patients with lung cancer and benign pulmonary nodules and to construct a lung cancer risk warning model using machine learning methods. From July 2020 to March 2022, we collected 862 participants including 263 patients with lung cancer, 292 patients with benign pulmonary nodules, and 307 healthy subjects. The TFDA-1 digital tongue diagnosis instrument was used to capture tongue images, using feature extraction technology to obtain the index of the tongue images.

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Introduction: Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) has a high incidence rate globally, increasing the burden of death, disability, and the economy worldwide. Previous studies have found that the compositions of oral and intestinal microbiota changed respectively in T2DM; whether the changes were associated or interacted between the two sites and whether there were some associations between T2DM and the ectopic colonization of oral microbiota in the gut still need to be identified.

Research Design And Methods: We performed a cross-sectional observational study; 183 diabetes and 74 controls were enrolled.

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This study aimed to explore the parameters of the independent predictive characteristic pulse diagram of polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) by analysing the pulse characteristics between healthy women and the PCOS group. A total of 278 women were recruited for this study. Pulse wave parameters were collected by the pulse spectrum analyser.

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Background: Research on intelligent tongue diagnosis is a main direction in the modernization of tongue diagnosis technology. Identification of tongue shape and texture features is a difficult task for tongue diagnosis in traditional Chinese medicine (TCM). This study aimed to explore the application of deep learning techniques in tongue image analyses.

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Background: In China, diabetes is a common, high-incidence chronic disease. Diabetes has become a severe public health problem. However, the current diagnosis and treatment methods are difficult to control the progress of diabetes.

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Background: The prevalence of diabetes increases year by year, posing a severe threat to human health. Current treatments are difficult to prevent the progression of diabetes and its complications. It is imperative to carry out individualized treatment of diabetes, but current diagnostic methods are difficult to specify an individualized treatment plan.

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The oral cavity and the intestine are the main distribution locations of human digestive bacteria. Exploring the relationships between the tongue coating and gut microbiota, the influence of the diurnal variations of the tongue coating microbiota on the intestinal microbiota can provide a reference for the development of the disease diagnosis and monitoring, as well as the medication time. In this work, a total of 39 healthy college students were recruited.

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Background: Fatigue is a common and subjective symptom, which is associated with many diseases and suboptimal health status. A reliable and evidence-based approach is lacking to distinguish disease fatigue and non-disease fatigue. This study aimed to establish a method for early differential diagnosis of fatigue, which can be used to distinguish disease fatigue from non-disease fatigue, and to investigate the feasibility of characterizing fatigue states in a view of tongue and pulse data analysis.

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Objective: To explore the data characteristics of tongue and pulse of non-small-cell lung cancer with Qi deficiency syndrome and Yin deficiency syndrome, establish syndrome classification model based on data of tongue and pulse by using machine learning methods, and evaluate the feasibility of syndrome classification based on data of tongue and pulse.

Methods: We collected tongue and pulse of non-small-cell lung cancer patients with Qi deficiency syndrome ( = 163), patients with Yin deficiency syndrome ( = 174), and healthy controls ( = 185) using intelligent tongue diagnosis analysis instrument and pulse diagnosis analysis instrument, respectively. We described the characteristics and examined the correlation of data of tongue and pulse.

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Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD), a leading cause of chronic hepatic disease, can progress to liver fibrosis, cirrhosis, and hepatocellular carcinoma. Therefore, it is extremely important to explore early diagnosis and screening methods. In this study, we developed models based on computer tongue image analysis technology to observe the tongue characteristics of 1778 participants (831 cases of NAFLD and 947 cases of non-NAFLD).

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Background: Tongue diagnosis is an important research field of TCM diagnostic technology modernization. The quality of tongue images is the basis for constructing a standard dataset in the field of tongue diagnosis. To establish a standard tongue image database in the TCM industry, we need to evaluate the quality of a massive number of tongue images and add qualified images to the database.

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Background: Diabetes is a chronic noncommunicable disease with high incidence rate. Diabetics without early diagnosis or standard treatment may contribute to serious multisystem complications, which can be life threatening. Timely detection and intervention of prediabetes is very important to prevent diabetes, because it is inevitable in the development and progress of the disease.

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Background: Fatigue is a kind of non-specific symptom, which occurs widely in sub-health and various diseases. It is closely related to people's physical and mental health. Due to the lack of objective diagnostic criteria, it is often neglected in clinical diagnosis, especially in the early stage of disease.

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Background: Diabetics has become a serious public health burden in China. Multiple complications appear with the progression of diabetics pose a serious threat to the quality of human life and health. We can prevent the progression of prediabetics to diabetics and delay the progression to diabetics by early identification of diabetics and prediabetics and timely intervention, which have positive significance for improving public health.

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Purpose: Studies have shown the association between tongue color and diseases. To help clinicians make more objective and accurate decisions quickly, we take unsupervised learning to deal with the basic clustering of tongue color in a 2D way.

Methods: A total of 595 typical tongue images were analyzed.

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