Soft computing agents for e-Health in application to the research and control of unknown diseases

Information Sciences

Volumn 176, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 1190-1214

  Ulieru, Mihaela ^a   Hadzic, Maja ^b   Chang, Elizabeth ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Control and treatment of unknown diseases; Heterogeneous knowledge integration; Human disease ontology template; Internet enabled diagnosis; Secure health information systems; Soft computing agents

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; DISEASE CONTROL; FUZZY SETS; INFORMATION SCIENCE; INTERNET; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

CONTROL AND TREATMENT OF UNKNOWN DISEASES; HETEROGENEOUS KNOWLEDGE INTEGRATION; HUMAN DISEASE ONTOLOGY TEMPLATE; INTERNET-ENABLED DIAGNOSIS; SECURE HEALTH INFORMATION SYSTEMS; SOFT COMPUTING AGENTS;

SOFTWARE AGENTS;

EID: 33144484852     PISSN: 00200255     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ins.2005.07.020     Document Type: Article

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