The causality research between syndrome elements by attribute topology
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instance of: scholarly article
title: The causality research between syndrome elements by attribute topology
zbMATH Open document ID: 1431.92075
DOI: 10.1155/2018/9707581
author: Tao Zhang
author: Mengqi Liu
author: Wen-Yuan Liu
published in: Computational \& Mathematical Methods in Medicine
publication date: 2018-12-17T00:00:00Z
review text: Summary: The traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) is an empirical medical system and has its own diagnosis and treatment method. The syndrome elements are atoms to modern TCM diagnosis proposed by Professor Zhu Wenfeng. Researching and analyzing the syndrome element system is one of the active issues for TCM research. At present, most related researches focus on the correlativity and hierarchical relationship of the diseases and symptoms, but the causality researches between syndrome elements themselves have not been reported so far. \textit{Methods.} To explore the causality between syndrome elements, a method named causality by attribute topology (CAT) is proposed. Based on the subordinate relations in attribute topology, the inference method analyzes and reasons the dependency relationship between the sets of objects which contain attributes. Through the removal of attributes in the attribute topology, the formal context is updated constantly. Thus, the causal relationship among the attributes is deduced. In this method, 500 records are mathematically transferred to a binary context for syndrome element analysis. Through the analysis and verification of the potential causal relationship between the syndrome elements, knowledge discovery of the diagnostic data of traditional Chinese medicine based on attribute topology structure diagram is conducted. \textit{Results.} This paper has verified the causal transformation between these syndrome elements. The experimental results between the female group data and the male group data show that different genders have different characteristics and relations of syndrome elements. The experimental results are basically consistent with the traditional Chinese medicine theory. \textit{Conclusion.} The experiment shows that causality by attribute topology (CAT) is feasible to describe the causality between TCM syndrome elements. Further research on possible knowledge discovery in TCM diagnostic data should be conducted through th…
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 92C50
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 05C90
zbMATH DE Number: 6993775
zbMATH Keywords: traditional Chinese medicine
zbMATH Keywords: syndrome elements
zbMATH Keywords: causality
zbMATH Keywords: attribute topology
Wikidata QID: Q90676155
MaRDI profile type: Publication
full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1155/2018/9707581
OpenAlex ID: W2811124298
cites work: Q5715718
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DBLP publication ID: journals/cmmm/ZhangLL18
description: scientific article; zbMATH DE number 6993775