An experiment in automatic classification of pathological reports

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 4594 LNAI, Issue , 2007, Pages 207-216

  Van Der Zwaan, Janneke ^a   Sang, Erik Tjong Kim ^a   De Rijke, Maarten ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); HOSPITAL DATA PROCESSING; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; PATHOLOGY; VOCABULARY CONTROL;

AUTOMATIC CLASSIFICATION; KEYWORDS; PATHOLOGICAL REPORTS;

MEDICAL COMPUTING;

EID: 35148821062     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-73599-1_28     Document Type: Conference Paper

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