Using formal concept analysis to visualize relationships of syndromes in traditional chinese medicine

Authors:
Xulong Liu;Wenxue Hong;Jialin Song;Tao Zhang
Affiliations:
Department of Biomedical Engineering, Yanshan University, Qinhuangdao, China;Department of Biomedical Engineering, Yanshan University, Qinhuangdao, China;Department of Biomedical Engineering, Yanshan University, Qinhuangdao, China;Department of Biomedical Engineering, Yanshan University, Qinhuangdao, China
Venue:
ICMB'10 Proceedings of the Second international conference on Medical Biometrics
Year:
2010

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Abstract

Computer-aided syndrome differentiation is one of most active issues in how to digitize the Traditional Chinese Medicine. The main purpose of this paper is to show the use of Formal Concept Analysis (FCA) to visualize the dependencies of syndromes of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) with Heart-Spleen syndrome serving as an example. First, the syndromes and syndrome factors are defined as the objects and attributes, then their concepts and the hierarchical relationships are described in mathematical language, finally their hierarchy is visualized by concept lattice. This approach may make syndrome's knowledge clearer, and may make data mining of TCM more efficient.