Ontological foundations for biomedical sciences

Artificial Intelligence in Medicine

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 179-182

  Hahn, Udo ^a   Schulz, Stefan ^b  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONCEPT FORMATION; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; COOPERATION; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; MEDICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY; METHODOLOGY; NOMENCLATURE; ONTOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTICS;

BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; EXPERT SYSTEMS; HUMANS; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; SEMANTICS; TERMINOLOGY; VOCABULARY, CONTROLLED;

EID: 34247100115     PISSN: 09333657     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.artmed.2006.12.006     Document Type: Editorial

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