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Novel Diagnostic Algorithm for the Floating and Sunken Pulse Qualities and Its Clinical Test

We propose a novel classification algorithm for the floating pulse and the sunken pulse using a newly defined coefficient (C (fs)). To examine the validity of the proposed algorithm, we carried out a clinical test in which 12 oriental medical doctors made pairwise diagnoses on the pulses of voluntee...

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Autores principales: Kim, Jaeuk U., Jeon, Young Ju, Lee, Yu Jung, Kim, Keun Ho, Kim, Jong Yeol
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3057659/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21423641
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2011/813427
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author Kim, Jaeuk U.
Jeon, Young Ju
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Kim, Keun Ho
Kim, Jong Yeol
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description We propose a novel classification algorithm for the floating pulse and the sunken pulse using a newly defined coefficient (C (fs)). To examine the validity of the proposed algorithm, we carried out a clinical test in which 12 oriental medical doctors made pairwise diagnoses on the pulses of volunteering subjects. 169 subjects were simultaneously diagnosed by paired doctors, and the diagnoses in 121 subjects were concordant, yielding an accuracy of 72% and a Matthews correlation coefficient of 0.42, which indicates reasonable agreement between doctors. Two sample T-tests showed that subjects in the sunken pulse group had significantly higher BMI and C (fs) (P < .05) than those in the floating pulse group. The pulse classification by the algorithm converged with the diagnoses of paired doctors with an accuracy up to 69%. With these results, we confirm the validity of the novel classification algorithm for the floating and sunken pulses.
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spelling pubmed-30576592011-03-21 Novel Diagnostic Algorithm for the Floating and Sunken Pulse Qualities and Its Clinical Test Kim, Jaeuk U. Jeon, Young Ju Lee, Yu Jung Kim, Keun Ho Kim, Jong Yeol Evid Based Complement Alternat Med Research Article We propose a novel classification algorithm for the floating pulse and the sunken pulse using a newly defined coefficient (C (fs)). To examine the validity of the proposed algorithm, we carried out a clinical test in which 12 oriental medical doctors made pairwise diagnoses on the pulses of volunteering subjects. 169 subjects were simultaneously diagnosed by paired doctors, and the diagnoses in 121 subjects were concordant, yielding an accuracy of 72% and a Matthews correlation coefficient of 0.42, which indicates reasonable agreement between doctors. Two sample T-tests showed that subjects in the sunken pulse group had significantly higher BMI and C (fs) (P < .05) than those in the floating pulse group. The pulse classification by the algorithm converged with the diagnoses of paired doctors with an accuracy up to 69%. With these results, we confirm the validity of the novel classification algorithm for the floating and sunken pulses. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2011 2011-03-01 /pmc/articles/PMC3057659/ /pubmed/21423641 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2011/813427 Text en Copyright © 2011 Jaeuk U. Kim et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title_fullStr Novel Diagnostic Algorithm for the Floating and Sunken Pulse Qualities and Its Clinical Test
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title_sort novel diagnostic algorithm for the floating and sunken pulse qualities and its clinical test
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3057659/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21423641
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2011/813427
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