The CAP cancer protocols - A case study of caCORE based data standards implementation to integrate with the Cancer Biomedical Informatics Grid

BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making

Volumn 6, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Tobias, Jonathan ^a   Chilukuri, Ram ^b   Komatsoulis, George A ^c   Mohanty, Sambit ^d   Sioutos, Nicholas ^e   Warzel, Denise B ^c   Wright, Lawrence W ^c   Crowley, Rebecca S ^d,f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b SemanticBits LLC   (United States)

^c NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e LOCKHEED MARTIN   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER CENTER; CANCER RESEARCH; DATA BASE; INFORMATION CENTER; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INFORMATION SCIENCE; INFORMATION SYSTEM; INTERNET; LINGUISTICS; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MEDICAL SOCIETY; NOMENCLATURE; PATHOLOGY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PUBLICATION; CLASSIFICATION; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COMPUTER INTERFACE; CONTROLLED VOCABULARY; DATABASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM; HUMAN; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; NATIONAL HEALTH ORGANIZATION; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; NEOPLASM; ONCOLOGY; SEMANTICS; STANDARDS; SYSTEM ANALYSIS; UNITED STATES;

CLINICAL PROTOCOLS; DATABASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS; HUMANS; INTERNET; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; MEDICAL ONCOLOGY; NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH (U.S.); NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; NEOPLASMS; PATHOLOGY, CLINICAL; SEMANTICS; SYSTEMS INTEGRATION; UNITED STATES; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE; VOCABULARY, CONTROLLED;

EID: 33746741075     PISSN: 14726947     EISSN: 14726947     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6947-6-25     Document Type: Article

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