A two-stage deep transfer learning model and its application for medical image processing in Traditional Chinese Medicine

Xu Zhang, Zhikui Chen, Jing Gao, Wei Huang, Peng Li, Jianing Zhang

Abstract: Highlights•A designed two-stage deep transfer learning strategy with good explainability.•The model of Traditional Chinese medicine tongue diagnosis is ingeniously realized.•Corresponding optimized network structure for its computerization.•Improve classifier to simulate important medical theories, improve the accuracy.•Accurate and real-time auxiliary diagnosis in real collected clinical dataset.