Using n-gram method in the decomposition of compound medical diagnoses

International Journal of Medical Informatics

Volumn 70, Issue 2-3, 2003, Pages 229-236

  Héja, Gergely ^a   Surján, György ^b  

^a BUDAPEST UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY AND ECONOMICS   (Hungary)

^b Natl Inst Lib for Hlth Info   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Automatic Data Processing; Computing methodologies; Documentation; Medical Records; Natural Language Processing; Terminology

Indexed keywords

DECOMPOSITION; DIAGNOSIS; DISEASES;

MEDICAL LANGUAGE;

HEALTH CARE;

ACCURACY; ALGORITHM; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; ERROR; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MEDICAL RECORD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STANDARD;

EID: 17944396137     PISSN: 13865056     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1386-5056(03)00049-2     Document Type: Article

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