Semantic clarification of the representation of procedures and diseases in SNOMED® CT

Studies in Health Technology and Informatics

Volumn 116, Issue , 2005, Pages 773-778

  Schulz, Stefan ^a   Hahn, Udo ^b   Rogers, Jeremy ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Knowledge representation; Logic; SNOMED

Indexed keywords

KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION; SEMANTICS;

CARE PROCESS; ENCODING SCHEMES; LOGIC; LOGIC-BASED MODELING; SNOMED;

COMPUTER CIRCUITS;

COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; NOMENCLATURE; SEMANTICS; SYSTEMATIZED NOMENCLATURE OF MEDICINE;

HUMANS; SEMANTICS; SYSTEMATIZED NOMENCLATURE OF MEDICINE; TERMINOLOGY AS TOPIC; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 76649104670     PISSN: 09269630     EISSN: 18798365     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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