A System for Automated Lexical Mapping

Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 334-343

  Sun, Jennifer Y ^a   Sun, Yao ^a  

^a BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; DATA BASE; DNA SEQUENCE; HEALTH CARE; LINGUISTICS; PERFORMANCE;

ALGORITHMS; DATABASES; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; LOGICAL OBSERVATION IDENTIFIERS NAMES AND CODES; UNIFIED MEDICAL LANGUAGE SYSTEM; VOCABULARY, CONTROLLED;

EID: 33646095769     PISSN: 10675027     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1197/jamia.M1823     Document Type: Article

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