Neural Network-Based Prescription of Chinese Herbal Medicines

Abstract

Objective: To develop a neural network model that recommends traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) herbal prescriptions. Methods: We constructed a new dataset of diagnosis and treatment knowledge from the Treatise on Febrile Diseases. Based on TCM's logical principles of “syndrome differentiation” and “state recognition”, a back-propagation neural network model is proposed that simulates clinical diagnosis and treatment. Results: The proposed model is a four-layer BP neural network. Experiments on the constructed dataset show that the proposed method achieved the best precision, recall, and F1-scores. Conclusion: The proposed method provides much more accurate herbal prescription recommendations than logistic regression.