Analyzing Correlation between Characteristics and Pathogenesis of Eye Collateral in Hypertensive Patients Based on Theory of Eye Diagnosis in Traditional Chinese Medicine and White Eye Imaging AI and Optical Technology
Objective To analyze the correlation study of the characteristics and pathogenesis of the eye collateral in hyperten-sive patients based on the theory of eye diagnosis in traditional Chinese medicine and the white eye imaging AI and optical tech-nology.Methods A total of 300 subjects who were examined in the outpatient and inpatient departments of Guang'anmen Hospital of China Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine(CATCM)from September 1,2021 to September 1,2023 were enrolled,inclu-ding 172 cases in the hypertension group(HTN),and 128 cases with normal blood pressure levels in the normal control group(NC).Both groups received"MyEyeD-10 White Eyes Shadowless Imaging Health Intelligence Analysis System",also known as the eye diagnostic instrument,which performed high-definition acquisition and feature extraction of the white eye images,fol-lowed by intelligent analysis,and then SPSS 26.0 was used for the statistical processing to analyze the characteristics of the eye collateral of the hypertensive patients and the subjects with normal blood pressure levels.Differences in the counts of features such as morphology,the color of the eye collateral blood vessels and the counts of the bulbar conjunctival blood vessels after parti-tioning were analyzed.Results There were significant differences in the scores of"blood vessels","spot"and"foggy"features between the two groups.In the comparison between the two groups,the score of"spot"feature in the HTN group[(18.00±7.07)points]was higher than that in the NC group[(14.32±5.60)points](P<0.05).The score of"blood vessels"feature in the HTN group[(30.15±1.15)points]was higher than that in the NC group[(30.15±1.15)points]and the score of"blood vessels"feature in the HTN group was higher than that in the NC group[(26.70±2.27)points](P<0.01).There was a significant difference in the"E"(heart)and"M"(liver)eye collateral scores between the two groups,with the white eye col-lateral scores of the HTN group being significantly higher than those of the control group[the"E"region(P<0.05),"M"area(P<0.01)].The scores of"dull red","yellow"and"brown"features were significantly different between the two groups,and the color features of"dull red","yellow"and"brown"of white eye collateral in the two groups were significant(P<0.05).The scores of"dull red"(P<0.01),"yellow"(P<0.01)and"brown"were significantly higher in the HTN group than those in the NC group(P<0.05).Conclusion Morphological characteristics of the white eye collateral,the color of the white eye collateral and the bulbar conjunctival vascular zoning were associated with hypertension,which provides a reference basis for the objectivity and precision of traditional Chinese medicine syndrome differentiation for ocular diagnosis.