An efficient approach to representing and mining knowledge from Qing court medical records

doi:10.1007/s11704-011-1021-y

Front Comput Sci Chin

2011, Vol. 5

Issue (4) : 395-404 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11704-011-1021-y

RESEARCH ARTICLE

An efficient approach to representing and mining knowledge from Qing court medical records

Weimin WANG^1,3(

), Jingchun ZHANG²(

), Cong CAO¹, Tao HOU¹, Yue LIU², Keji CHEN²

1. Graduate School, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China; 2. Cardiovascular Department of Xiyuan Hospital, China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, Beijing 100091, China; 3. School of Computer Science & Engineering, Jiangsu University of Science and Technology, Zhenjiang 212003, China

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Abstract

Research on Qing Court Medical Records (RQCMR) is a large-volume book which was edited and annotated by the sixth co-author Keji, Chen and his colleagues, and consists of all the medical records of imperial families and aristocrats of the Qing dynasty. To reveal and utilize their high value both in traditional Chinese medicine research and modern clinical practice, we have developed a method of transforming the Qing Court Medical Records (QCMR) into a computer-readable, structured representation, so that statistical analysis and data mining can be accurately performed. The method consists of a frame ontology based medical language, called MedL, for representing QCMR, a parser for compiling MedL frames into a database, and an explorative pattern mining technique. With this method the entire RQCMR volume is transformed into a database and medical patterns may be mined from the database.

Keywords Traditional Chinese medicine Qing court medical records frame ontology explorative pattern mining

Corresponding Author(s): WANG Weimin,Email:wangweimin@gmail.com; ZHANG Jingchun,Email:zhangjingchun276@vip.sohu.com

Issue Date: 05 December 2011

Cite this article:

Weimin WANG,Jingchun ZHANG,Cong CAO, et al. An efficient approach to representing and mining knowledge from Qing court medical records[J]. Front Comput Sci Chin, 2011, 5(4): 395-404.

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Fig.1 A medical record on page 133 in RQCMR [] and its translation

Fig.2 Frame syntax for original medical cases

Fig.3 Frame Syntax for Annotation Cases

Fig.4 MedL frame for the first visit of a patient

Fig.5 Medl Frame for sebsequent visit of the patient. (a) Implicit modification; (b) explicit modification

Fig.6 Modern annotation of a medical case in QCMR.

Fig.7 State transition for primitive slot and keyword parsing

Fig.8 Prescription grammar

Fig.9 Errors of frame parsing

Fig.10 Database design

Fig.11 Specifying association pattern schemata

Fig.12 Extracting most special associations

Fig.13 Illustrating the patterns of the schema “ → ”

Fig.14 Illustrating the patterns of the schema “ → ”

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