Semantic integration of cervical cancer data repositories to facilitate multicenter association studies: The ASSIST approach

Cancer Informatics

Volumn 8, Issue , 2009, Pages 31-44

  Agorastos, Theodoros ^a   Koutkias, Vassilis ^a   Falelakis, Manolis ^a,b   Lekka, Irini ^a   Mikos, Themistoklis ^a   Delopoulos, Anastasios ^a,b   Mitkas, Pericles A ^a,b   Tantsis, Antonios ^a   Weyers, Steven ^c   Coorevits, Pascal ^d   Kaufmann, Andreas M ^e   Kurzeja, Roberto ^e   Maglaveras, Nicos ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES INSTITUTE   (Greece)

^c GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^d GHENT UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

^e CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Association studies; Cervical cancer; Coding systems; Data unifi cation; Semantic integration

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER REGISTRY; CANCER RESEARCH; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; GENETICS; HABIT; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; KNOWLEDGE; MEDICAL EXAMINATION; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; SEMANTICS; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER;

EID: 77649256467     PISSN: 11769351     EISSN: 11769351     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4137/cin.s963     Document Type: Article

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