Abstract
![CDATA[The efficacy of a TCM medication derives from the herb-herb interaction in a formula. Although there are standard formulae, a practitioner will only pick a subset of formulas as templates and personalize them for the patients. It is not easy to determine the true interacting herbs to contribute to the effectiveness of a treatment. Association rule mining is an approach to find the co-occurrence of some items, however, it is not goal-oriented, and the generated results are very sensitive to the given parameters, i.e. support count. The aim of this paper is to introduce a new framework to systematically generate a set of combinations of interacting herbs that leads to good outcome. This algorithm was tested with a dataset of treatment of insomnia to understand the effectiveness of combination of herbs. Interesting and insightful results were noted and discussed.]]
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Proceedings of the 2010 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine Workshops, BIBMW 2010, 18-21 December 2010, Hong, Kong |
Publisher | IEEE |
Pages | 722-726 |
Number of pages | 5 |
ISBN (Print) | 9781424483020 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2010 |
Event | IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine Workshops - Duration: 18 Dec 2010 → … |
Conference
Conference | IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine Workshops |
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Period | 18/12/10 → … |
Keywords
- complementarities
- herbs
- insomnia
- interactions
- super-modular function