AUTHOR=Yuan Zijian , Shao Pengwei , Li Jinran , Wang Yinuo , Zhu Zixuan , Qiu Weijie , Chen Buqun , Tang Yan , Han Aiqing 

TITLE=YOLOv8-ACU: improved YOLOv8-pose for facial acupoint detection

JOURNAL=Frontiers in Neurorobotics

VOLUME=Volume 18 - 2024

YEAR=2024

URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/neurorobotics/articles/10.3389/fnbot.2024.1355857

DOI=10.3389/fnbot.2024.1355857

ISSN=1662-5218

ABSTRACT=： Acupoint localisation is the most basic and important part of TCM acupuncture diagnosis and treatment. The recognition of facial acupoints using intelligent detection model can effectively improve the accuracy of localisation. In this research, we propose an improved YOLOv8-pose key point detection algorithm for facial acupoints, adding ECA attention to the model to improve the feature extraction ability of the acupoints, replacing the original neck module with a lighter Slim-neck module, and at the same time improving the loss function for GIoU, and the new model