An ontology based knowledge management system architecture for Traditional Chinese Medicine

Author

Yu, Bai ; Dongfeng, Cai ; Yanju, Dong

Author_Institution

K.E. Res. Center, Shenyang Aerosp. Univ., Shenyang, China

fYear

2010

fDate

18-18 Dec. 2010

Firstpage

640

Lastpage

643

Abstract

Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) has clinical effectives and characteristics in disease diagnosis and treatment, and Chinese Medical Formula and drug therapies. Some new computational techniques and information technologies are needed to manage these large repositories of TCM data and to discover useful patterns and knowledge from them. This study is aimed to present a framework of an ontology based knowledge management system for TCM, it mainly include three layered functional architecture: Interface Layer, Intelligence Layer and Ontology Resource Layer. The Ontology concept description architecture of TCM is also discussed.

Keywords

bioinformatics; data analysis; diseases; drugs; knowledge management; medical information systems; ontologies (artificial intelligence); patient diagnosis; Chinese medical formula; computational technique; disease diagnosis; disease treatment; drug therapies; information technology; intelligence layer; interface layer; knowledge management system architecture; ontology resource layer; three layered functional architecture; traditional Chinese medicine; Knowledge Management; Ontology; Traditional Chinese Medicine; architecture;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Bioinformatics and Biomedicine Workshops (BIBMW), 2010 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Hong, Kong

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-8303-7

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-8304-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/BIBMW.2010.5703877

Filename

5703877