Ontology-Oriented Diagnostic System for Traditional Chinese Medicine Based on Relation Refinement
Joint Authors
Chen, Huajun
Yu, Tong
Gu, Peiqin
Source
Computational and Mathematical Methods in Medicine
Issue
Vol. 2013, Issue 2013 (31 Dec. 2013), pp.1-11, 11 p.
Publisher
Hindawi Publishing Corporation
Publication Date
2013-02-19
Country of Publication
Egypt
No. of Pages
11
Main Subjects
Abstract EN
Although Chinese medicine treatments have become popular recently, the complicated Chinese medical knowledge has made it difficult to be applied in computer-aided diagnostics.
The ability to model and use the knowledge becomes an important issue.
In this paper, we define the diagnosis in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) as discovering the fuzzy relations between symptoms and syndromes.
An Ontology-oriented Diagnosis System (ODS) is created to address the knowledge-based diagnosis based on a well-defined ontology of syndromes.
The ontology transforms the implicit relationships among syndromes into a machine-interpretable model.
The clinical data used for feature selection is collected from a national TCM research institute in China, which serves as a training source for syndrome differentiation.
The ODS analyzes the clinical cases to obtain a statistical mapping relation between each syndrome and associated symptom set, before rechecking the completeness of related symptoms via ontology refinement.
Our diagnostic system provides an online web interface to interact with users, so that users can perform self-diagnosis.
We tested 12 common clinical cases on the diagnosis system, and it turned out that, given the agree metric, the system achieved better diagnostic accuracy compared to nonontology method—92% of the results fit perfectly with the experts’ expectations.
American Psychological Association (APA)
Gu, Peiqin& Chen, Huajun& Yu, Tong. 2013. Ontology-Oriented Diagnostic System for Traditional Chinese Medicine Based on Relation Refinement. Computational and Mathematical Methods in Medicine،Vol. 2013, no. 2013, pp.1-11.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-463039
Modern Language Association (MLA)
Gu, Peiqin…[et al.]. Ontology-Oriented Diagnostic System for Traditional Chinese Medicine Based on Relation Refinement. Computational and Mathematical Methods in Medicine No. 2013 (2013), pp.1-11.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-463039
American Medical Association (AMA)
Gu, Peiqin& Chen, Huajun& Yu, Tong. Ontology-Oriented Diagnostic System for Traditional Chinese Medicine Based on Relation Refinement. Computational and Mathematical Methods in Medicine. 2013. Vol. 2013, no. 2013, pp.1-11.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-463039
Data Type
Journal Articles
Language
English
Notes
Includes bibliographical references
Record ID
BIM-463039