Semantic Classification of Diseases in Discharge Summaries Using a Context-aware Rule-based Classifier

Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 580-584

  Solt, Illés ^a   Tikk, Domonkos ^b   Gál, Viktor ^c   Kardkovács, Zsolt T ^a  

^a BUDAPEST UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY AND ECONOMICS   (Hungary)

^b HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; OBESITY; SEMANTICS;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; CLASSIFICATION; COMORBIDITY; DISEASE; HUMANS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; OBESITY; PATIENT DISCHARGE; SEMANTICS;

EID: 67649359351     PISSN: 10675027     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1197/jamia.M3087     Document Type: Article

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