The intelligent experience inheritance system for Traditional Chinese Medicine

Abstract

The inheritance of knowledge and experience was crucial to the development of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM). However, the existing methods of inheriting the unique clinical experience of famous veteran TCM doctors still followed the outdated and inefficient Master-Prentice schema. In addition, the inherited medical books and records were usually lack of standardization and systematization. In this article, a new method for inheriting the academic thoughts and clinical experience of famous veteran doctors with the help of artificial intelligence technology was explored. Due to the individualized treatment characteristics namely "same disease with different treatments, different diseases with the same treatment," the intelligent inheritance of TCM faced many technical barriers. To tackle these problems, we proposed a prototype system framework for the intelligent inheritance of famous veteran doctors based on rules and deep learning models and performed a case study on the treatment of pediatric asthma. The architecture could not only make full use of the advantages of deep learning, but also integrate the valuable knowledge and experience analysis of famous veteran doctors from injected rules. Specifically, the study took pediatric asthma medical records as training and test samples and calculated the similarity between the generated prescriptions and the real-world clinical prescriptions from the famous veteran doctors. Experimental results showed that the generated prescription could achieve a similarity of more than 90%. It proved that the proposed framework provided a feasible way for the intelligent inheritance and research of the academic thoughts and clinical experience of famous veteran TCM doctors.

Keywords: Traditional Chinese Medicine; artificial intelligence; pediatric asthma.