| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立中正大學 === 資訊工程所 === 96 === Breast cancer is the most frequently occurred cancer for women. There are still no effective approaches for medical prevention of breast cancer at present; Therefore, we wish to achieve early detection and early treatment. The Chinese medicine has a long history and be able to has a profound theory of treatment. It diagnoses the diseases of patients by examining global status of body. This provides opportunities for early detection of diseases. Recently, the advance of Ryodoraku and Energy Medicine provide opportunities for the scientific validation of theory of treatment in Chinese medicine.
This thesis uses Meridian Energy Analysis Device (MEAD) to detect the meridian energy of both normal subjects and patients, and then uses two classification techniques, the Support Vector Machine and the K-nearest neighbor, to analyze the relationships between meridian energy and breast cancer. This research aims to search for an approach that can detect breast cancer earlier than the conventional detection approaches.
Our experimental results show that using the energy of right Yuan points (右原穴) of the twelve Meridian and the Support Vector Machine classification technique with linear kernel achieves the highest accuracy rate 78.33%. Our experimental results show that the energy of the right Yuan point of the Urinary Bladder Meridian (膀胱經) and the K-nearest neighbor classification technique achieves the secondly highest accuracy rate 77.31%. The experiments also show that there are 88% of the subjects who have energy less than 13.5 at the right Jinggu are patients of breast cancer, and there are 83% of the subjects who have energy more than 49.3 at the right Jinggu are normal subjects.
To the best of our knowledge, there is no mention of correlation between Jinggu and breast cancer in Chinese medicine literatures. Our experiments show that there is high correlation between Jinggu and breast cancer. Though we cannot yet provide enough proof to validate this correlation, we believe that this discovery is very worthwhile to investigate forthmore in the future.
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