Artificial Intelligence in Medicine
Volume 38, Issue 3 , Pages 219-236 , November 2006

Knowledge discovery in traditional Chinese medicine: State of the art and perspectives

  • Yi Feng

      Affiliations

    • AdvanCed Computing aNd sysTem (CCNT) Lab, College of Computer Science, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, PR China
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +86 571 87951647; fax: +86 571 87953079.
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  • Zhaohui Wu

      Affiliations

    • AdvanCed Computing aNd sysTem (CCNT) Lab, College of Computer Science, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, PR China
    • ,
  • Xuezhong Zhou

      Affiliations

    • China Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Beijing 100700, PR China
    • ,
  • Zhongmei Zhou

      Affiliations

    • AdvanCed Computing aNd sysTem (CCNT) Lab, College of Computer Science, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, PR China
    • ,
  • Weiyu Fan

      Affiliations

    • China Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Beijing 100700, PR China

Received 25 January 2006 ,Revised 4 July 2006 ,Accepted 7 July 2006.

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doi: 10.1016/j.artmed.2006.07.005

Artificial Intelligence in Medicine
Volume 38, Issue 3 , Pages 219-236 , November 2006

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