Segmenting and merging domain-specific ontology modules for clinical informatics

Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications

Volumn 209, Issue , 2010, Pages 414-427

  Ogbuji, Chimezie ^a,b   Arabandi, Sivaram ^b   Zhang, Songmao ^c   Zhang, Guo Qiang ^b  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Clinical Informatics; Module; Ontology; Segment; SNOMED CT

Indexed keywords

KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; MERGING;

AUTOMATED TRANSLATION; CLINICAL INFORMATICS; CUSTOMISATION; DOMAIN-SPECIFIC ONTOLOGIES; MEDICAL DOMAINS; MODULE; ONTOLOGY'S; PERFORMANCE ISSUES; SEGMENT; SNOMED-CT;

ONTOLOGY;

EID: 77950969359     PISSN: 09226389     EISSN: 18798314     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.3233/978-1-60750-535-8-414     Document Type: Conference Paper

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