EXPLORING ANALYTICAL PATTERNS OF THE ARTERIAL PULSE
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https://doi.org/10.70066/jahm.v5i5.358Keywords:
Ayurveda, tridosha, pulse waveform, feature extraction, pulse rate variabilityAbstract
Ayurveda has been practiced for thousands of years in India and the demand in the implementation of this form
of alternative medicine is increasing because of accurate diagnosis and long term effect. The Ayurvedic doctor
(vaidya) gets the health related information of the individual by placing the three fingertips (index, middle and
ring) at the wrist. The procedure of pulse acquisition is subjective and differs not only from vaidya to vaidya but
also depends on other physiological, pathological and environmental factors. These varying factors have made it
difficult to correlate the subjective information with the laboratory controlled proof-based methodology used to
quantize modern medicine. There are several attempts to standardize this Ayurvedic pulse-based methodology
by using advanced instrumentation. The main aim of this review is to provide a summary of the feature
extraction and pattern recognition techniques used for the Ayurvedic wrist-pulse based diagnostic techniques.
Modifications in the pulse due to certain physiological and pathological conditions have also been described.
These contents are mainly extracted from the published work from more than 50 journal and conference articles.
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