Using Semantic and Structural Properties of the Unified Medical Language System to Discover Potential Terminological Relationships

Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 346-353

  Patel, Chintan O ^a   Cimino, James J ^a,b  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; KNOWLEDGE; LANGUAGE; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; NOMENCLATURE;

ALGORITHMS; CLASSIFICATION; SEMANTICS; SUBJECT HEADINGS; UNIFIED MEDICAL LANGUAGE SYSTEM; VOCABULARY, CONTROLLED;

EID: 65349133806     PISSN: 10675027     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1197/jamia.M2931     Document Type: Article

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