Using UMLS metathesaurus concepts to describe medical images: Dermatology vocabulary

Computers in Biology and Medicine

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 89-100

  Woods, James W ^a   Sneiderman, Charles A ^a   Hameed, Kamran ^b   Ackerman, Michael J ^a   Hatton, Charlie ^c  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^b AGA KHAN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Pakistan)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Concept name; Dermatology; Indexing; Internet; Metathesaurus; Semantics; UMLS; Vocabulary; WWW

Indexed keywords

DERMATOLOGY; ONLINE SYSTEMS; SEMANTICS; WORLD WIDE WEB;

INDEXING; UMLS; VOCABULARY;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONCEPT FORMATION; DERMATOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGING; LINGUISTICS; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; NOMENCLATURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN DEFECT; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ABSTRACTING AND INDEXING; COMPUTER COMMUNICATION NETWORKS; DERMATOLOGY; HUMANS; SEMANTICS; UNIFIED MEDICAL LANGUAGE SYSTEM;

EID: 28444483063     PISSN: 00104825     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compbiomed.2004.08.003     Document Type: Article

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