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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.
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Liu, X., Hong, W., Song, J., Zhang, T. (2010). Using Formal Concept Analysis to Visualize Relationships of Syndromes in Traditional Chinese Medicine. In: Zhang, D., Sonka, M. (eds) Medical Biometrics. ICMB 2010. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6165. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-13923-9_34
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