Acupuncture and Tuina School/The Third Teaching Hospital, Chengdu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Chengdu, Sichuan, China.
Acupuncture & Brain Science Research Center, Chengdu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Chengdu, Sichuan, China.
Neural Plast. 2020 Aug 24;2020:8871712. doi: 10.1155/2020/8871712. eCollection 2020.
The effects of acupuncture facilitating neural plasticity for treating diseases have been identified by clinical and experimental studies. In the last two decades, the application of neuroimaging techniques in acupuncture research provided visualized evidence for acupuncture promoting neuroplasticity. Recently, the integration of machine learning (ML) and neuroimaging techniques becomes a focus in neuroscience and brings a new and promising approach to understand the facilitation of acupuncture on neuroplasticity at the individual level. This review is aimed at providing an overview of this rapidly growing field by introducing the commonly used ML algorithms in neuroimaging studies briefly and analyzing the characteristics of the acupuncture studies based on ML and neuroimaging, so as to provide references for future research.
针刺促进神经可塑性治疗疾病的效果已被临床和实验研究所证实。在过去的二十年中，神经影像学技术在针刺研究中的应用为针刺促进神经可塑性提供了可视化的证据。最近，机器学习（ML）和神经影像学技术的结合成为神经科学的一个研究热点，为在个体水平上理解针刺对神经可塑性的促进作用提供了一种新的、有前途的方法。本文旨在通过简要介绍神经影像学研究中常用的 ML 算法，并分析基于 ML 和神经影像学的针刺研究的特点，为未来的研究提供参考，从而对这一快速发展的领域进行概述。
