An Enriched Unified Medical Language System Semantic Network with a Multiple Subsumption Hierarchy

Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 195-206

  Zhang, Li ^a   Perl, Yehoshua ^a   Halper, Michael ^b   Geller, James ^a   Cimino, James J ^c  

^a NEW JERSEY INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b KEAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BIOINFORMATICS; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; MEDICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; NOMENCLATURE; SEMANTICS;

EID: 2342512189     PISSN: 10675027     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1197/jamia.M1269     Document Type: Article

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