Automatic SNOMED classification-a corpus-based method

Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine

Volumn 54, Issue 1-2, 1997, Pages 115-122

  De Bruijn, L M ^a   Hasman, A ^a   Arends, J W ^b  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Automatic encoding; Natural language processing; Nearest neighbor rule; SNOMED

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA STRUCTURES; ENCODING (SYMBOLS); INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

NEAREST NEIGHBOR RULE;

PATTERN RECOGNITION;

ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; CODING; DIAGNOSIS; SIMULATION;

ALGORITHMS; AUTOMATIC DATA PROCESSING; CLASSIFICATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATABASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS; DIAGNOSIS; FORMS AND RECORDS CONTROL; HISTOLOGY; HUMANS; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; MEDICAL RECORDS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED;

EID: 0031238762     PISSN: 01692607     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0169-2607(97)00040-0     Document Type: Article

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