Research on traditional Chinese medicine CBR based on ontology
by Xiang Zhang; Shixing Yan; Guozheng Li
International Journal of Computers in Healthcare (IJCIH), Vol. 2, No. 2, 2015

Abstract: Doctors of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) need to learn a lot of knowledge of both Chinese and Western medicine, and have to diagnose and treat a large number of patients within a very limited time, which imposes a severe stress on them. Therefore, knowledge and assistant-decision-making (ADM) that help determination of Zheng's, diseases and treatments is an urgent need in clinical treatment. Case-based reasoning (CBR) based on ontology have gradually become a spotlight. This article first reviewed the relevant theory and research of ontology and CBR. Then, the description language and constructing method of ontology are discussed. Finally, this article makes analysis of methods and technology used in CBR based on ontology from knowledge representation of clinical cases and similarity computation.

Online publication date: Thu, 11-Jun-2015

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