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. 2026 Feb 9;17:1788574. doi: 10.3389/fphar.2026.1788574

Correction: AI-assisted literature exploration of innovative Chinese medicine formulas

Meng-Chi Chung 1, Li-Jen Su 1,2,3,4,5, Chien-Lin Chen 4,6,7, Li-Ching Wu 1,2,*
PMCID: PMC12927262  PMID: 41737552

There was a mistake in the Graphical Abstract and Figure 5C as published. The name of a referenced tool was incorrectly written with the Chinese character “德” instead of the correct character “得.” The incorrect spelling “世醫德效方” is corrected to “世醫得效方.” The corrected Graphical abstract and Figure 5 appear below.

FIGURE 5.

Chart A is a bar graph labeled "Formula Keyword Extraction" showing five different formula sources, with "Pu-Ji Fang" having the highest keyword count of 14,956, much higher than the others. Chart B is a bar graph labeled "Herbs Keyword Extraction" comparing four herb sources, with "Sheng Ji Zong Lu" having the highest count at 2,925, followed by "Dictionary of Chinese Medicine" and "Pu-Ji Fang." Chart C is a Venn diagram displaying overlap in key terms among five Chinese medicine formula sources. Chart D is a Venn diagram displaying overlap in key terms among four Chinese medicine herb sources.

Histograms and union charts showing the number of keywords from various TCM texts. (A) Histogram depicting keyword counts in formulas; (B) Histogram illustrating keyword counts in herbs; (C) Union charts representing formula occurrences across various TCM texts; (D) Union charts displaying herb occurrences across various TCM texts.

Graphical Abstract.

Infographic illustrating a workflow for analyzing classical Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) texts, showing electronic text collection and keyword extraction, followed by data mining and artificial intelligence methods, leading to network analysis and potential identification of new formulas.

In the published article, there was a spelling error in the name of a referenced tool. The character “德” was erroneously used instead of “得.” The incorrect spelling “世醫德效方” is corrected to “世醫得效方.”

A correction has been made to the Section 2 Materials and methods, 2.1 Data collection and corpus building, Paragraph Number 3.

“Ancient Chinese medicine e-books were sourced from Wikipedia, including Pu-Ji Fang (普濟方), Ben Cao Bei Yao (本草備要), Sheng Ji Zong Lu (聖濟總錄), Shi Yi De Xiao Fang (世醫得效方), Taiping Sheng Hui Fang (太平聖惠方), Bei Ji Qian Jin Yao Fang (備急千金要方), and Zhou Hou Bei Ji Fang (肘後備急方), for text analysis and keyword refinement.”

The original article has been updated.

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