Supporting the classification of pathology reports: Comparing two information retrieval methods

Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine

Volumn 62, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 109-113

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

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Coding; Information theory; N gram; SNOMED

Indexed keywords

ENCODING (SYMBOLS); INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

PATHOLOGY;

MEDICAL COMPUTING;

ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; CODING AND CLASSIFICATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; HUMAN; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MEDICINE; METHODOLOGY; PATHOLOGIST;

DATABASES, FACTUAL; HUMANS; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL;

EID: 0034646982     PISSN: 01692607     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0169-2607(00)00056-0     Document Type: Article

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