Are herb-pairs of traditional Chinese medicine distinguishable from others? Pattern analysis and artificial intelligence classification study of traditionally defined herbal properties

Journal of Ethnopharmacology

Volumn 111, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 371-377

  Ung, Choong Yong ^a,b   Li, Hu ^a   Cao, Zhi Wei ^c   Li, Yi Xue ^c   Chen, Yu Zong ^a,c  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^c SHANGHAI CENTER FOR BIOINFORMATION TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Artificial intelligent method; Herb pair; Herbal medicine; Herbal property; Support vector machine; Traditional Chinese medicine

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; CHINESE MEDICINE; CLASSIFICATION; CORRELATION FUNCTION; HERB; HERBAL MEDICINE; MODULATION;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; DRUG SYNERGISM; DRUGS, CHINESE HERBAL; MEDICINE, CHINESE TRADITIONAL; PRESCRIPTIONS, DRUG; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 34047247532     PISSN: 03788741     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jep.2006.11.037     Document Type: Article

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