Chinese acupuncture expert system (CAES)-a useful tool to practice and learn medical acupuncture

Lam, CFD; Leung, KS; Heng, PA; Lim, CED; Shun Wong, FW

Chinese acupuncture expert system (CAES)-a useful tool to practice and learn medical acupuncture

Lam, CFD Leung, KS Heng, PA Lim, CED Shun Wong, FW

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Citation:: Journal of Medical Systems, 2012, 36 (3), pp. 1883 - 1890
Issue Date:: 2012-06-01

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dc.contributor.author	Lam, CFD	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Leung, KS	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Heng, PA	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Lim, CED	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Shun Wong, FW	en_US
dc.date.available	2010-12-26	en_US
dc.date.issued	2012-06-01	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	Journal of Medical Systems, 2012, 36 (3), pp. 1883 - 1890	en_US
dc.identifier.issn	0148-5598	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/114122
dc.description.abstract	This paper describes the development of a Chinese Acupuncture Expert System (CAES) that will assist the learning and practice of medical acupuncture. This was the development of a Chinese Acupuncture Expert System which incorporated eight functional modules. These modules were 1) Add Patient Record subsystem; 2) Diagnosis subsystem ; 3) Acupuncture Prescription subsystem ; 4) Needle Insertion Position Animation subsystem ; 5) Acupuncture Points Usage Statistic subsystem ; 6) History Query subsystem; 7) Acupuncture Points Query subsystem and 8) Diagnosis Remarks and Diagnosis Record Save subsystem. Two databases were built-Patient Record database and Diagnosis (Acupuncture) Knowledge database. All the Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) knowledge and acupuncture treatment prescriptions were extracted from officially used TCM textbooks and received guidiance and expert advice from two acupuncturists working in this project. A Chinese Acupuncture Expert System (CAES) was built, which after the input from users of any Chinese disease symptoms and signs, it can provide a list of related TCM syndrome diagnoses based on the patients' disease symptoms and signs, and at the same time it can offer advice of the appropriate Chinese acupuncture treatment to the users. CAES also provided text descriptions and acupuncture animations showing the acupoint locations and the direction and depth of the needle insertion technique. Therefore users can easily learn acupuncture and practice it. This new acupuncture expert system will hopefully provide an easy way for users to learn and practice Chinese Acupuncture and establish its usefulness after it was fully evaluated. © Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2011.	en_US
dc.relation.ispartof	Journal of Medical Systems	en_US
dc.relation.isbasedon	10.1007/s10916-010-9647-0	en_US
dc.subject.classification	Medical Informatics	en_US
dc.subject.mesh	Humans	en_US
dc.subject.mesh	Acupuncture	en_US
dc.subject.mesh	Computer-Assisted Instruction	en_US
dc.subject.mesh	Expert Systems	en_US
dc.subject.mesh	Software	en_US
dc.subject.mesh	User-Computer Interface	en_US
dc.title	Chinese acupuncture expert system (CAES)-a useful tool to practice and learn medical acupuncture	en_US
dc.type	Journal Article
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utslib.for	0806 Information Systems	en_US
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pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Science
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Abstract:

This paper describes the development of a Chinese Acupuncture Expert System (CAES) that will assist the learning and practice of medical acupuncture. This was the development of a Chinese Acupuncture Expert System which incorporated eight functional modules. These modules were 1) Add Patient Record subsystem; 2) Diagnosis subsystem ; 3) Acupuncture Prescription subsystem ; 4) Needle Insertion Position Animation subsystem ; 5) Acupuncture Points Usage Statistic subsystem ; 6) History Query subsystem; 7) Acupuncture Points Query subsystem and 8) Diagnosis Remarks and Diagnosis Record Save subsystem. Two databases were built-Patient Record database and Diagnosis (Acupuncture) Knowledge database. All the Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) knowledge and acupuncture treatment prescriptions were extracted from officially used TCM textbooks and received guidiance and expert advice from two acupuncturists working in this project. A Chinese Acupuncture Expert System (CAES) was built, which after the input from users of any Chinese disease symptoms and signs, it can provide a list of related TCM syndrome diagnoses based on the patients' disease symptoms and signs, and at the same time it can offer advice of the appropriate Chinese acupuncture treatment to the users. CAES also provided text descriptions and acupuncture animations showing the acupoint locations and the direction and depth of the needle insertion technique. Therefore users can easily learn acupuncture and practice it. This new acupuncture expert system will hopefully provide an easy way for users to learn and practice Chinese Acupuncture and establish its usefulness after it was fully evaluated. © Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2011.

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