TCM Syndrome Classification of AIDS based on Manifold Ranking

Treatment based on the syndrome differentiation is the key of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) treating the disease of acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS). Therefore, a feasible way of improving the clinical therapy effectiveness is to correctly explore the syndrome classifications. Recently, more and more AIDS researchers are focused on exploring the syndrome classifications. In this paper, a novel data mining method based on Manifold Ranking (MR) is proposed to analyze the syndrome classifications for the disease of AIDS. Compared with the previous methods, three weaknesses, which are linear relation of the clinical data, mutually exclusive symptoms among different syndromes, confused application of expert knowledge, are avoided so as to effectively exploit the latent relation between syndromes and symptoms. Better performance of syndrome classifications is able to be achieved according to the experimental results and the clinical experts.