Advances in Patient Classification for Traditional Chinese Medicine: A Machine Learning Perspective

Table 1

Overview of machine learning algorithms for patient classification using inspection (SC_Inspection: sign classification based on inspection; SD_Inspection: syndrome differentiation based on inspection; DC_Inspection: disease classification based on inspection).

Algorithms	Applications
	SC_Inspection	SD_Inspection	DC_Inspection
-nearest neighbor	[16–18, 29, 32, 33, 35, 43]		[19, 21, 34, 38, 138]
Naïve Bayes	[35, 43]	[22]
Decision tree		[20, 22]
Support vector machine	[35, 36, 39, 42, 43]	[20, 22]	[21, 37, 38]
Neural network	[23]	[20]	[21]
Graphical models	[26]	[22]	[24, 25]
Miscellaneous	[29–31, 35, 40]	[27]	[28, 41]