Data Mining Application In The Study Of Acupuncture Literature Meridian

This project aims at applying the data mining technologies on the acupoints of fourteen meridians applied to the treatment for certain kinds of diseases recorded in the ancient documents of acupuncture and moxibustion. With the data mining, the paper will count the frequencies of the single points or composite of points used in treating certain diseases and confirm the attributes of filtered points. Based the above information, these points with the highest frequency are analyzed and the most commonly used points are found according to through the acupuncture practice. More approaches of the combination of acupoints and some reference on the treatments of single points and compatibility of points in the clinical treatment are provided. It works out the feasibilities of optimized treatment. The detailed approach is described as follows:1) Two-dimensional table documents of texting mining is set up and the points are standardized and filtered. the columns of table represent the names of acupuncture and moxibustion documents in treating certain diseases and these rows stand for the names of points appearing in these documents.2) The rough set theory and the methods of texting mining are used to process data to find out the implied and potential useful rules from the data; to evaluate the importance of correspondence between points and symptoms.3) Apriori algorithm is used to find the combinational rules in the related points and mining new specific points, which is used to find relations between acupoints and symptoms, acupoints and pathogenesis, and symptoms and pathogenesis. The above results are used to probe into the relationship of the frequently applied points and the difference of the dialectical thinking patterns of doctors'; from the aspects of single points to reveal the doctors' characteristics and rules on selecting points by analyzing the applied points influenced by the circumstances; to analyzing the doctors' rules of prescriptions of acupuncture and moxibustion and the combination of common used channel points.4) The basic features of the data of acupuncture and moxibustion are summarized to work out the dialectical basic laws of acupuncture and moxibustion; to classify the things with similariites into same groups and the things with great difference into different groups by directly comparing the characteristics from samples.