HBot: A Chatbot for Healthcare Applications in Traditional Chinese Medicine Based on Human Body 3D Visualization

TL;DR

HBot is a healthcare chatbot that uses a 3D human body model and knowledge graph to provide intuitive TCM consultation, prescription, and training services, enhancing understanding of acupuncture points and meridians.

Contribution

This paper introduces a novel TCM chatbot integrating 3D visualization and knowledge graph for improved healthcare and educational applications.

Findings

Effective visualization of acupoints enhances user understanding.

HBot supports multiple TCM consultation and training functions.

Code and dataset are publicly available for further research.

Abstract

The unique diagnosis and treatment techniques and remarkable clinical efficacy of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) make it play an important role in the field of elderly care and healthcare, especially in the rehabilitation of some common chronic diseases of the elderly. Therefore, building a TCM chatbot for healthcare application will help users obtain consultation services in a direct and natural way. However, concepts such as acupuncture points (acupoints) and meridians involved in TCM always appear in the consultation, which cannot be displayed intuitively. To this end, we develop a \textbf{h}ealthcare chat\textbf{bot} (HBot) based on a human body model in 3D and knowledge graph, which provides conversational services such as knowledge Q\&A, prescription recommendation, moxibustion therapy recommendation, and acupoint search. When specific acupoints are involved in the conversations between user and HBot, the 3D body will jump to the corresponding acupoints and highlight them. Moreover, Hbot can also be used in training scenarios to accelerate the teaching process of TCM by intuitively displaying acupuncture points and knowledge cards. The demonstration video is available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhQhutSKkTU . Our code and dataset are publicly available at Gitee: https://gitee.com/plabrolin/interactive-3d-acup.git