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Record Nr.

UNINA9910299683203321

Autore

Wong Allan K. Y

Titolo

Semantically Based Clinical TCM Telemedicine Systems / / by Allan K. Y. Wong, Jackei H.K. Wong, Wilfred W. K. Lin, Tharam S. Dillon, Elizabeth J. Chang

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin, Heidelberg : , : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2015

ISBN

3-662-46024-6

Edizione

[1st ed. 2015.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XVI, 152 p. 79 illus.)

Collana

Studies in Computational Intelligence, , 1860-949X ; ; 587

Disciplina

610.285

Soggetti

Computational intelligence

Artificial intelligence

Biomedical engineering

Health informatics

Computational Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence

Biomedical Engineering and Bioengineering

Health Informatics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di contenuto

Telemedicine and Knowledge Representation for Traditional Chinese Medicine -- The TCM Ambit -- Semantics and Ontology -- Ontology for Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) -- Ontology Driven System Generation and Remote Installation -- Ontology Evolution and the Living TCM Ontology -- TCM Telemedicine Infrastructure.-Recapitulation and Future Directions.  .

Sommario/riassunto

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.