Inter-patient distance metrics using SNOMED CT defining relationships

Journal of Biomedical Informatics

Volumn 39, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 697-705

  Melton, Genevieve B ^a   Parsons, Simon ^b   Morrison, Frances P ^c   Rothschild, Adam S ^c   Markatou, Marianthi ^c   Hripcsak, George ^c  

^a DEPARTMENT OF PATHOLOGY   (United States)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^c Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

Datamining; Electronic medical records; Information content; Natural language processing; Ontology; Similarity metrics

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; CORRELATION METHODS; DATA MINING; HEALTH CARE; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; PATIENT TREATMENT;

ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORDS; INFORMATION CONTENT; ONTOLOGY; SIMILARITY METRICS;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING;

ARTICLE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERRATER RELIABILITY; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; MEDICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ALGORITHMS; CLINICAL MEDICINE; HUMANS; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; MEDICAL RECORDS SYSTEMS, COMPUTERIZED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; SYSTEMATIZED NOMENCLATURE OF MEDICINE; SYSTEMS INTEGRATION; TERMINOLOGY; UNIFIED MEDICAL LANGUAGE SYSTEM; VOCABULARY, CONTROLLED;

EID: 33750688534     PISSN: 15320464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbi.2006.01.004     Document Type: Article

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