Methodology for using the UMLS as a background knowledge for the description of surgical procedures

International Journal of Bio-Medical Computing

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 189-202

  Burgun, A ^a   Botti, G ^b   Bodenreider, O ^c   Delamarre, D ^a   Leveque J M ^d   Lukacs, B ^e   Mayeux, D ^c   Bremond, M ^f   Kohler, F ^c   Fieschi, M ^b   Le Beux, P ^a  

^a Lab d'Informatique Médicale   (France)

^b TIMONE HOSPITAL   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF NANCY   (France)

^d Clinique de la Sagesse   (France)

^e HÔPITAL TENON   (France)

^f Groupe Image   (France)

Author keywords

Knowledge representation; Semantic description; Sharability and reusability; Surgical procedures; Unified medical language system (UMLS)

Indexed keywords

KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION; MEDICAL COMPUTING; MEDICAL PROBLEMS;

SEMANTIC DESCRIPTION; UNIFIED MEDICAL LANGUAGE SYSTEM;

SURGERY;

ARTICLE; INFORMATION SYSTEM; METHODOLOGY; MODEL; NOMENCLATURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; SURGICAL INSTRUMENTS; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, OPERATIVE; TERMINOLOGY; UNIFIED MEDICAL LANGUAGE SYSTEM; VOCABULARY, CONTROLLED;

EID: 0030455771     PISSN: 00207101     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0020-7101(96)01206-8     Document Type: Article

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