Data Mining Application to Syndrome Differentiation in Traditional Chinese Medicine

Traditional Chinese medicine is special for Western people. Its diagnosis and treatment depend on syndrome. Syndrome is composed of some symptoms, and each symptom demonstrates different values in different syndrome. In this paper, we first describe approach of syndrome and symptom in TCM. Then, a hierarch model of syndrome differentiation in traditional Chinese medicine is proposed. According to the model, data mining model is designed to complete it. Given special data mining schema and character of high dimensional data sets, we introduce hypergraph in cluster and attributes combination in association procedure. Finally, the result of model in syndrome differentiation of traditional Chinese medicine is given