Ontology integration: Experience with medical terminologies

Computers in Biology and Medicine

Volumn 36, Issue 7-8, 2006, Pages 893-919

  Lee, Yugyung ^a   Supekar, Kaustubh ^b   Geller, James ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI KANSAS CITY   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NEW JERSEY INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ontology; Ontology integration; Semantic enrichment; Semantic integration; Semantic refinement; Semantics; Terminology

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; INTEGRATION; SEMANTICS; TERMINOLOGY;

ONTOLOGY; ONTOLOGY INTEGRATION; SEMANTIC ENRICHMENT; SEMANTIC INTEGRATION; SEMANTIC REFINEMENT;

MEDICAL COMPUTING;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; MEDICAL RESEARCH; METHODOLOGY; NOMENCLATURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECALL; SEMANTICS;

ALGORITHMS; HUMANS; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; SEMANTICS; TERMINOLOGY; UNIFIED MEDICAL LANGUAGE SYSTEM; VOCABULARY, CONTROLLED;

EID: 33646838754     PISSN: 00104825     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compbiomed.2005.04.013     Document Type: Article

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