Application of a Large Visual Language Model on Tongue Image Description Generation and Physical Constitution Reasoning in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TongueVLM): Model Development and Validation Study

The TongueVLM model, which achieves tongue image description generation and physical constitution reasoning in TCM, is suitable for the application of a Chinese medicine intelligent diagnosis system.

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JMIR Medical Informatics
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2026-03-12
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https://doi.org/10.2196/87237
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Traditional Chinese Medicine Studies
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Abstract

The TongueVLM model, which achieves tongue image description generation and physical constitution reasoning in TCM, is suitable for the application of a Chinese medicine intelligent diagnosis system.

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Anhui Agricultural University (CN), Hefei University of Technology (CN), Anhui University of Traditional Chinese Medicine (CN), Hefei University (CN)
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