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[email protected] ISSN 0255-2922 © 2012 JTCM. All rights reserved. CLINICAL OBERVATION Data mining-based detection of acupuncture treatment on juvenile myopia Xuming Yang, Lingyu Xu, Fei Zhong, Ying Zhu aa Xuming Yang, College of Acupuncture and Massage, Shang- consistent with the understandings of the ophthal- hai University of TCM, Shanghai 201203, China mic circles. The duration of using the Internet and Lingyu Xu, Fei Zhong, College of Computer Engineering watching TV every day was the main factor that af- and Science, Shanghai University, Shanghai 200072, China fected vision. Acupuncture feelings and therapeu- Ying Zhu, Department of Ophthalmology, Shanghai of TCM tic effect have a strong correlativity. A good or hospital, Shanghai 200071, China Supported by National Natural Science Foundation grant above experience's score of acupuncture could NO.40976108 and Public Projects of Science and Technolo- slow the progression of juvenile myopia. gy Ministry grant NO. 201105033 Correspondence to: Prof. Lingyu Xu, College of Computer CONCLUSION: Collecting data from patients with Engineering and Science, Shanghai University, Shanghai juvenile myopia by using data mining can extract 200072, China.
[email protected] hidden potential rules and knowledge from the re- Telephone: +86-21-56337465, +86-13122852765 search evidence. The decision support can be pro- Accepted: June 25, 2012 vided to improve the doctor's clinical acupuncture treatment effects. © 2012 JTCM. All rights reserved. Abstract OBJECTIVE: We applied data mining techniques to Key words: Acupuncture therapy; Myopia; Algo- the study of acupuncture as a treatment for juve- rithms; Data mining nile myopia, with the aim of identifying hidden pat- terns in the data.