Paper Info
Title
Association Learning Of Chinese Herbal Medicines And Disease Treatment Efficacy
Abstract
Patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) usually suffer from great pain. It is difficult to cure RA thoroughly. Among various treatment methods, the Chinese herbal medicine is attracting more and more attention. The aim of this study is to analyse the associations between the herbs and the effectively improved laboratory indexes used to evaluate the treatment efficacy. The data was collected from the First Hospital Affiliated to Anhui University of Chinese Medicine. The definition of effectively improved laboratory indexes was proposed. The association rules learning was applied to identify associations between the herbs and the effectively improved key laboratory indexes. Core herbs and their combination patterns were discovered from large-scale prescriptions. Our results were also validated by relevant traditional Chinese medicine theory and physicians' clinical experience, which indicated the applicability and reliability of our method in studying the effectiveness of herbal medicines.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1080/00207543.2018.1480841
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PRODUCTION RESEARCH
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Rheumatoid arthritis, association rules learning, laboratory indexes, Chinese herbal medicine, TCM theory
Journal
57
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
3
0020-7543
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
10
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Jingui Xie1144.46
Ning Wang200.34
Runkang Ding320.74
Jinchen Guo400.34
Ling Xin500.34
Jian Liu603.38