Expanding the Extent of a UMLS Semantic Type via Group Neighborhood Auditing

Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 746-757

  Chen, Yan ^a   Gu, Huanying ^b   Perl, Yehoshua ^c   Halper, Michael ^d   Xu, Junchuan ^c  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b State University of New Jersey   (United States)

^c University Heights   (United States)

^d KEAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MEDICAL AUDIT; MEDICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; METHODOLOGY; SEMANTICS;

ALGORITHMS; HUMANS; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; QUALITY CONTROL; SEMANTICS; UNIFIED MEDICAL LANGUAGE SYSTEM;

EID: 69549090022     PISSN: 10675027     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1197/jamia.M2951     Document Type: Article

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