Temporal representation and reasoning in medicine: Research directions and challenges

Artificial Intelligence in Medicine

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 101-113

  Adlassnig, Klaus Peter ^a   Combi, Carlo ^b   Das, Amar K ^c   Keravnou, Elpida T ^d   Pozzi, Giuseppe ^e  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VERONA   (Italy)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CYPRUS   (Cyprus)

^e POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Fuzzy sets and logic; Health information systems; Medicine; Temporal clinical databases; Temporal reasoning; Temporal representation

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SCIENCE; DATABASE SYSTEMS; DRUG THERAPY; FUZZY SETS; KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION; PATIENT TREATMENT;

HEALTH INFORMATION SYSTEMS; TEMPORAL CLINICAL DATABASES; TEMPORAL REASONING; TEMPORAL REPRESENTATION;

DRUG PRODUCTS;

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTER SYSTEM; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MEDICINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; DATABASES, FACTUAL; FUZZY LOGIC; HEALTH; HUMANS; MEDICINE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 33750628303     PISSN: 09333657     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.artmed.2006.10.001     Document Type: Article

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