Semantic information in medical information systems: Utilization of text mining techniques to analyze medical diagnoses

Journal of Universal Computer Science

Volumn 14, Issue 22, 2008, Pages 3781-3795

  Holzinger, Andreas ^a   Geierhofer, Regina ^a   Mödritscher, Felix ^b   Tatzl, Roland ^c  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^b VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS   (Austria)

^c FH JOANNEUM UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Austria)

Author keywords

Information retrieval; Medical documentation; Performance; Text mining

Indexed keywords

EID: 64849091826     PISSN: 0958695X     EISSN: 09486968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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