System for mining association rules from traditional-chinese medicine database
Zhaohui Wu · Journal of Zhejiang University(Engineering Science) · 2001
Traditional-chinese medicine has a long history and is based on a huge amount of valuable pharmaceutic information and documents. How use them to server for modern pharmacy is a big challenge. The study was aimed at disecovering the pharmaceutical principles of basic elements of Traditional Chinese Medicine in a TCM prescription database. Authors discuss how to utilize the OLAP and Apriori algorithm to discover the association rule efficiently in a TCM prescription database, and give the system's model, algorithm and the experiment's results.