Xin Dong, Chenxi Zhao, Xinpeng Song, Lei Zhang, Yu Liu, Jun Wu, Yiran Xu, Ning Xu, Jialing Liu, Haibin Yu, Kuo Yang, Xuezhong Zhou
OBJECTIVES: Herbal prescription recommendation (HPR) is a hot topic and challenging issue in field of clinical decision support of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM). However, almost all previous HPR methods have not adhered to the clinical principles of syndrome differentiation and treatment planning of TCM, which has resulted in suboptimal performance and difficulties in application to real-world clinical scenarios. MATERIALS AND METHODS: We emphasize the synergy among diagnosis and treatment procedure in real-world TCM clinical settings to propose the PresRecST model, which effectively combines the key components of symptom collection, syndrome differentiation, treatment method determination, and herb recommendation...
April 10, 2024: Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association: JAMIA