Visual Analysis of Traditional Chinese Medicine Health Records

Abstract

: Traditional Chinese medicine is a profound source of Chinese culture, and studying health records is an effective means for traditional Chinese medicine inheritance and advancement. A visual analysis method is proposed for traditional Chinese medicine health records to analyze multivariate, multimodal, time-varying health record data, and studying medicines in high-dimensional symptom spaces. With multiple linked views composed by a flow chart, dimensionality reduction plots, and lab test plots, aided by brushing-and-linking in-teractions, the visual analysis method supports medical experts to practice the holistic view and the theory of syndrome differentiation in the analysis. A perception-inspired comparative visual mapping and interaction is designed to investigate the integration of traditional Chinese medicine and modern medicine. The analysis of three cases of various kidney diseases treated by a famous doctor demonstrates that proposed method is prom-ising in traditional Chinese medicine inheritance, and mining core prescriptions to design new ones.