Overview
- Presents the convergence of the adoption of some Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) Practices into mainstream Allopathic Western Medicine
- Pioneering work in the field of semantically based TCM telemedicine systems
- Increases the understanding of semantically based clinical TCM telemedicine systems and clarifies how different technologies can be put together to implement a workable system
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Studies in Computational Intelligence (SCI, volume 587)
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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About this book
Recent years have seen the development of two significant trends namely: the adoption of some Traditional Chinese Medicine Practices into mainstream Allopathic Western Medicine and the advent of the internet and broad band networks leading to an increased interest in the use of Telemedicine to deliver medical services.
In this book, we see the convergence of these two trends leading to a semantically-based TCM Telemedicine system that utilizes an ontology to provide sharable knowledge in the TCM realm to achieve this.
The underpinning research required the development of a three-layer architecture and an Ontology of the TCM knowledge.
As TCM knowledge like all medical knowledge is not frozen in time it was important to develop an approach that would allow evolution of the Ontology when new evidence became available.
In order for the system to be practically grounded it was important to work with an industry partner PuraPharm Group/HerbMiners Informatics Limited. This partnership was initiated through Professor Allan Wong and the Chairman of PuraPharm Group Mr. Abraham Chan. This led to the system being utilized in more than 20 Mobile Clinics in Hong Kong and 300 Hospitals in China.
In order for these different deployments of the system to be coherent with the main core Ontology, it was necessary for us to develop an Ontology Driven Software System Generation approach.
Authors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Semantically Based Clinical TCM Telemedicine Systems
Authors: Allan K. Y. Wong, Jackei H.K. Wong, Wilfred W. K. Lin, Tharam S. Dillon, Elizabeth J. Chang
Series Title: Studies in Computational Intelligence
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-46024-5
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-662-46023-8Published: 05 February 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-662-51965-3Published: 06 October 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-662-46024-5Published: 23 January 2015
Series ISSN: 1860-949X
Series E-ISSN: 1860-9503
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 152
Number of Illustrations: 79 b/w illustrations
Topics: Computational Intelligence, Artificial Intelligence, Biomedical Engineering and Bioengineering, Health Informatics