Integration of prostate cancer clinical data using an ontology

Journal of Biomedical Informatics

Volumn 42, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1035-1045

  Min, Hua ^a   Manion, Frank J ^a   Goralczyk, Elizabeth ^a   Wong, Yu Ning ^a   Ross, Eric ^a   Beck, J Robert ^a  

^a FOX CHASE CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Data integration; Knowledge sharing; Ontology; Semantic heterogeneity

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL DATA; CLINICAL DATA; DATA INTEGRATION; INTEGRATION PROCESS; KNOWLEDGE SHARING; PRIMARY SOURCES; PROOF OF CONCEPT; PROSTATE CANCERS; SEARCH AND RETRIEVAL; SEMANTIC HETEROGENEITY; SEMANTIC QUERY LANGUAGE;

DATA HANDLING; INTEGRATION; METADATA; QUERY LANGUAGES; SEMANTICS;

ONTOLOGY;

ARTICLE; DATA BASE; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INFORMATION SYSTEM; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; SEMANTICS;

COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DATABASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS; DATABASES, FACTUAL; HUMANS; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; MALE; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; SEMANTICS; TERMINOLOGY AS TOPIC; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 70350574680     PISSN: 15320464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbi.2009.05.007     Document Type: Article

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