Leveraging XML-based electronic medical records to extract experiential clinical knowledge: An automated approach to generate cases for medical case-based reasoning systems

International Journal of Medical Informatics

Volumn 68, Issue 1-3, 2002, Pages 187-203

  Abidi, Syed Sibte Raza ^a   Manickam, Selvakumar ^b  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b SCHOOL OF PHYSICS   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Case based reasoning; Electronic medical records; Knowledge acquisition; XML

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL EQUIPMENT; INTELLIGENT STRUCTURES; INTERNET; KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION; MEDICAL APPLICATIONS; PROBLEM SOLVING; XML;

CASE-BASED REASONING (CBR);

DIAGNOSIS;

AUTOMATION; BIOTRANSFORMATION; CALCULATION; CONFERENCE PAPER; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; METHODOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBLEM SOLVING;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; HUMANS; LOGIC; MEDICAL INFORMATICS COMPUTING; MEDICAL RECORDS SYSTEMS, COMPUTERIZED; PROBLEM SOLVING; SUBJECT HEADINGS; UNIFIED MEDICAL LANGUAGE SYSTEM; VOCABULARY, CONTROLLED;

EID: 0037132489     PISSN: 13865056     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1386-5056(02)00076-X     Document Type: Conference Paper

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