Syndromes classification of the active stage of ankylosing spondylitis in traditional chinese medicine by cluster analysis of symptoms and signs data

Communications in Computer and Information Science

Volumn 86 CCIS, Issue , 2011, Pages 657-663

  Yao, Kuiwu ^a   Zhang, Liangdeng ^a,b   Wang, Jie ^a   Zhang, Ji ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF CHINESE MATERIA MEDICA   (China)

^b BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE MEDICINE   (China)

Author keywords

ankylosing spondylitis active stage; clustering analysis; syndromes classification and diagnosis; traditional Chinese medicine

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE STAGE; CLINICAL PRACTICES; CLUSTERING ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL CLASSIFICATION; SYNDROMES CLASSIFICATION AND DIAGNOSIS; TCM SYNDROME; TRADITIONAL CHINESE MEDICINE;

MEDICINE;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS;

EID: 79955410380     PISSN: 18650929     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-19853-3_97     Document Type: Conference Paper

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