Retrieval of similar electronic health records using UMLS concept graphs

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 6177 LNCS, Issue , 2010, Pages 296-303

  Plaza, Laura ^a   Díaz, Alberto ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Electronic Health Record; Graph Theory; Similar Case Retrieval; UMLS

Indexed keywords

CONCEPT GRAPH; CONCEPT IDENTIFICATION; DECISION MAKING PROCESS; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORD; EXHAUSTIVE SEARCH; EXPERT JUDGMENT; FREE TEXTS; PATIENT RECORD; SEMANTIC GRAPHS; SIMILAR CASE; VECTOR SPACE MODELS;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; DECISION MAKING; GRAPH THEORY; HEALTH; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; RECORDS MANAGEMENT; VECTOR SPACES;

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 77955443211     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-13881-2_31     Document Type: Conference Paper

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