A self-learning expert system for diagnosis in traditional Chinese medicine

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 557-566

  Wang, Xuewei ^a   Qu, Haibin ^a   Liu, Ping ^a   Cheng, Yiyu ^a  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Bayesian network; Data mining; Diagnosis; Expert system; Traditional Chinese medicine

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DATA MINING; DATABASE SYSTEMS; DIFFERENTIATION (CALCULUS); MEDICINE; PROBLEM SOLVING; STANDARDIZATION;

BAYESIAN NETWORK; TRADITIONAL CHINESE MEDICINE;

EXPERT SYSTEMS;

EID: 1442359643     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2003.10.004     Document Type: Article

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