Visual Analysis of Traditional Chinese Medicine Health Records

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 pro-posed 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.