%A Cungen Cao,Meng Sun,Shi Wang %T Extracting terms from clinical records of traditional Chinese medicine %0 Journal Article %D 2014 %J Front. Med. %J Frontiers of Medicine %@ 2095-0217 %R 10.1007/s11684-014-0361-z %P 347-351 %V 8 %N 3 %U {https://academic.hep.com.cn/fmd/EN/10.1007/s11684-014-0361-z %8 2014-10-09 %X

Health records of traditional Chinese medicine contain valuable clinical information which can be used for improvement of disease treatment and for medical research. In this paper, we present a practical iterative extraction method for extracting terms from the records. The method is based on a set of extraction rules, the Mesh, and the likelihood ratio technique, and achieved a precision rate of 88.18% and a recall rate of 94.21%.