Artificial Intelligence in Medicine
Volume 48, Issue 2 , Pages 139-152 , February 2010

Development of traditional Chinese medicine clinical data warehouse for medical knowledge discovery and decision support

  • Xuezhong Zhou

      Affiliations

    • School of Computer and Information Technology, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing 100044, China
    • ,
  • Shibo Chen

      Affiliations

    • TCM Institute of Basic Clinic Medicine, China Academy of Chinese Medicine Sciences, Beijing 100700, China
    • ,
  • Baoyan Liu

      Affiliations

    • China Academy of Chinese Medicine Sciences, Beijing 100700, China
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +86 10 64014411x2213; fax: +86 10 64007743.
    • ,
  • Runsun Zhang

      Affiliations

    • Guanganmen Hospital, China Academy of Chinese Medicine Sciences, Beijing 100053, China
    • ,
  • Yinghui Wang

      Affiliations

    • Guanganmen Hospital, China Academy of Chinese Medicine Sciences, Beijing 100053, China
    • ,
  • Ping Li

      Affiliations

    • Guanganmen Hospital, China Academy of Chinese Medicine Sciences, Beijing 100053, China
    • ,
  • Yufeng Guo

      Affiliations

    • Guanganmen Hospital, China Academy of Chinese Medicine Sciences, Beijing 100053, China
    • ,
  • Hua Zhang

      Affiliations

    • Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, Beijing 100029, China
    • ,
  • Zhuye Gao

      Affiliations

    • Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, Beijing 100029, China
    • ,
  • Xiufeng Yan

      Affiliations

    • Guanganmen Hospital, China Academy of Chinese Medicine Sciences, Beijing 100053, China

Received 16 August 2008 ,Revised 22 July 2009 ,Accepted 23 July 2009.

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Artificial Intelligence in Medicine
Volume 48, Issue 2 , Pages 139-152 , February 2010

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