Ontology development for unified traditional Chinese medical language system

Artificial Intelligence in Medicine

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 15-27

  Zhou, Xuezhong ^a   Wu, Zhaohui ^a   Yin, Aining ^b   Wu, Lancheng ^b   Fan, Weiyu ^b   Zhang, Ruen ^b  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF CHINESE MATERIA MEDICA   (China)

Author keywords

Medical language system; Ontology development; Traditional Chinese medicine

Indexed keywords

HEALTH CARE; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; MEDICINE;

ONTOLOGY; TRADITIONAL CHINESE MEDICINE (TCM);

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE;

HERBACEOUS AGENT; PESTICIDE;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; BIOENGINEERING; CHINESE MEDICINE; HEALTH PROMOTION; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MEDICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MEDICINAL PLANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; UNITED STATES;

EID: 4444221581     PISSN: 09333657     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.artmed.2004.01.014     Document Type: Article

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