Modern Computational Approaches to Traditional Chinese Medicine

Preface

List of Contributors

1. Overview of Knowledge Discovery in Traditional Chinese Medicine

1.1 Introduction

1.2 The State of the Art of TCM Data Resources

1.3 Review of KDTCM Research

1.4 Discussions and Future Directions

1.5 Conclusions

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2. Integrative Mining of Traditional Chinese Medicine Literature and MEDLINE for Functional Gene Networks

2.1 Introduction

2.2 Connecting TCM Syndrome to Modern Biomedicine by Integrative Literature Mining

2.3 Related Work on Biomedical Literature Mining

2.4 Name Entity and Relation Extraction Methods

2.5 MeDisco/3S System

2.6 Results

2.7 Conclusions

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3. MapReduce-Based Network Motif Detection for Traditional Chinese Medicine

3.1 Introduction

3.2 Related Work

3.3 MapReduce-Based Pattern Finding

3.4 Application to Prescription Compatibility Structure Detection

3.5 Conclusions

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4. Data Quality for Knowledge Discovery in Traditional Chinese Medicine

4.1 Introduction

4.2 Key Data Quality Dimensions in TCM

4.3 Methods to Handle Data Quality Problems

4.4 Conclusions

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5. Service-Oriented Data Mining in Traditional Chinese Medicine

5.1 Introduction

5.2 Related Work

5.3 System Architecture and Data Mining Service

5.4 Case Studies

5.5 Conclusions

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6. Semantic E-Science for Traditional Chinese Medicine

6.1 Introduction

6.2 Results

6.3 Discussion

6.4 Conclusions

6.5 Methods

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7. Ontology Development for Unified Traditional Chinese Medical Language System

7.1 Introduction

7.2 The Principle and Knowledge System of TCM

7.3 What Is an Ontology?

7.4 Protégé 2000: The Tool We Use

7.5 Ontology Design and Development for UTCMLS

7.6 Results

7.7 Conclusions

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8. Causal Knowledge Modeling for Traditional Chinese Medicine Using OWL 2

8.1 Introduction

8.2 Causal TCM Knowledge Modeling

8.3 Causal Reasoning

8.4 Evaluation

8.5 Conclusions

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9. Dynamic Subontology Evolution for Traditional Chinese Medicine Web Ontology

9.1 Introduction

9.2 TCM Domain Ontology

9.3 Subontology Model

9.4 Ontology Cache for Knowledge Reuse

9.5 Dynamic Subontology Evolution

9.6 Experiment and Evaluation

9.7 Related Work

9.8 Conclusions

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10. Semantic Association Mining for Traditional Chinese Medicine

10.1 Introduction

10.2 Related Work

10.3 Methods

10.4 Evaluation

10.5 Use Cases

10.6 Conclusions

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11. Semantic-Based Database Integration for Traditional Chinese Medicine

11.1 Introduction

11.2 System Architecture and Technical Features

11.3 Semantic Mediation

11.4 TCM Semantic Portals

11.5 User Evaluation and Lesson Learned

11.6 Related Work

11.7 Conclusions

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12. Probabilistic Semantic Relationship Discovery from Traditional Chinese Medical Literature

12.1 Background

12.2 Related Work

12.3 Methods

12.4 Results and Discussions

12.5 Conclusions

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13. Deriving Similarity Graphs from Traditional Chinese Medicine Linked Data on the Semantic Web

13.1 Introduction

13.2 Related Work

13.3 SST Approach

13.4 Experiments and Results

13.5 Conclusions

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