Evaluation of preprocessing techniques for chief complaint classification

Journal of Biomedical Informatics

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 613-623

  Dara, Jagan ^a   Dowling, John N ^a   Travers, Debbie ^b   Cooper, Gregory F ^a   Chapman, Wendy W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Chief complaints; Infection control; Natural language processing; Public health surveillance; Surveillance; Syndrome; Syndromic surveillance

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFIERS; HEALTH; INDUSTRIAL ECONOMICS; LEARNING SYSTEMS; MULTITASKING;

(T ,S)-SPLITTING; CLASSIFICATION PERFORMANCE; DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH (DOH); ELSEVIER (CO); HIGH ACCURACY; PRE PROCESSORS; PRE-PROCESSORS; PREPROCESSING SYSTEMS; PREPROCESSING TECHNIQUES;

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION);

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; BIOINFORMATICS; BIOLOGICAL WARFARE; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; ONLINE SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; SYNDROME DELINEATION;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; DIAGNOSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; SYNDROME; TERMINOLOGY AS TOPIC;

EID: 46649085697     PISSN: 15320464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbi.2007.11.004     Document Type: Article

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