Discovering validation rules from microbiological data

New Generation Computing

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 123-133

  Lamma, Evelina ^a   Riguzzi, Fabrizio ^a   Storari, Sergio ^a   Mello, Paola ^b   Nanetti, Anna ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FERRARA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Knowledge based systems; Knowledge discovery and data mining; Knowledge elicitation; Microbiology

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTICS; HOSPITALS; LABORATORIES; MICROBIOLOGY;

ANTIMICROBIAL TEST; VALIDATION;

MEDICAL COMPUTING;

EID: 0037244650     PISSN: 02883635     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF03037630     Document Type: Article

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