Knowledge discovery in Chinese medicine

ABSTRACT

Our motivation for knowledge discovery in Chinese medicine is two folds: innovate and verify effective data mining technology in realistic applications; and update Chinese medical informatics. This paper focuses on the former aspect. To develop effective mining functions for Chinese medicine study, we have considered a number of critical issues including: data complications, mining model reliability, and mining tools' usability. The result is a fuzzy based "Hyper Knowledge Discovery System" (HKDS). This paper presents our recently proposed concepts and approaches as well as their flexibility and interactivity in information retrieval and association rule mining embodied in HKDS.

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INDEX TERMS

Primary Classification:
  H. Information Systems
  H.3 INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL
      H.3.3 Information Search and Retrieval

Additional Classification:
  J. Computer Applications
  J.3 LIFE AND MEDICAL SCIENCES

General Terms:
Design, Measurement, Reliability

Keywords:
Chinese medicine, data mining, hyper knowledge discovery system, interactive information search, multi layered, multi valued state data source, reliability