Searching association rules of traditional Chinese medicine on Ligusticum wallichii by text mining

Dan Luo, Cheng Xiao*, Guang Zheng, Shuyu Sun, Minzhi Wang, Xiaojuan He, Aiping LYU

*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Much useful information on Ligusticum wallichii (L W) could be obtained from published literature by text mining technique. In this study, the data set on LW was downloaded from Chinese BioMedical literature database (SinoMed). Then, association rules among diseases, traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) syndromes, formulae and herbs on LWwere investigated by text mining technique. These rules include TCM syndromes to diseases, formulae and combinational herbs, respectively. Diseases related with formulae including L Wwere mined out by executing data slicing algorithm. Finally, the results were visually demonstrated with Cytoscape 2.8 software. The main features from the mining data were: (1) LWwas frequently used in treating cerebral infraction; (2) Blood stasis due to Qi deficiency was the main syndrome in TCM clinical practice; (3) Angelica sinensis was the first herb to combine with L W according to co-occurrent frequency; (4) Associated with LW, networks of TCM syndromes-diseases, formulae-diseases, TCM syndromes-formulae, and TCM syndromes-combinational herbs were constructed. These associated networks represented a holistic thinking of Chinese medicinal therapy, which might embody association rules among diseases, syndromes, formulae and herbs on LW.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings - 2013 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine, IEEE BIBM 2013
Pages162-167
Number of pages6
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2013
Event2013 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine, IEEE BIBM 2013 - Shanghai, China
Duration: 18 Dec 201321 Dec 2013

Publication series

NameProceedings - 2013 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine, IEEE BIBM 2013

Conference

Conference2013 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine, IEEE BIBM 2013
Country/TerritoryChina
CityShanghai
Period18/12/1321/12/13

Scopus Subject Areas

  • Biomedical Engineering

User-Defined Keywords

  • associated networks
  • Ligusticum wallichi
  • text mining technique
  • traditional Chinese medicine

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