Sequential Condition Evolved Interaction Knowledge Graph for Traditional Chinese Medicine Recommendation
This addresses personalized TCM prescription recommendations for patients, but it is incremental as it builds on existing methods by adding sequential and interaction components.
The paper tackled the problem of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) recommendation by proposing a framework that considers patient condition dynamics across multiple visits and herb interactions, achieving state-of-the-art performance on a real-world dataset.
Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) has a rich history of utilizing natural herbs to treat a diversity of illnesses. In practice, TCM diagnosis and treatment are highly personalized and organically holistic, requiring comprehensive consideration of the patient's state and symptoms over time. However, existing TCM recommendation approaches overlook the changes in patient status and only explore potential patterns between symptoms and prescriptions. In this paper, we propose a novel Sequential Condition Evolved Interaction Knowledge Graph (SCEIKG), a framework that treats the model as a sequential prescription-making problem by considering the dynamics of the patient's condition across multiple visits. In addition, we incorporate an interaction knowledge graph to enhance the accuracy of recommendations by considering the interactions between different herbs and the patient's condition. Experimental results on a real-world dataset demonstrate that our approach outperforms existing TCM recommendation methods, achieving state-of-the-art performance.