Using the Abstraction Network in complement to description logics for quality assurance in biomedical terminologies - A case study in SNOMED CT

Studies in Health Technology and Informatics

Volumn 160, Issue PART 1, 2010, Pages 1070-1074

  Wei, Duo ^a   Bodenreider, Olivier ^b  

^a NEW JERSEY INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Abstraction network; Comparative study; Description logics; Quality assurance; Systematized nomenclature of medicine

Indexed keywords

ABSTRACTING; ERRORS; FORMAL LANGUAGES; QUALITY ASSURANCE; TERMINOLOGY;

COMPARATIVE STUDIES; DESCRIPTION LOGIC; DEVELOPMENT ENVIRONMENT; LOGICAL CONSISTENCY; NETWORK METHODOLOGIES; SNOMED-CT;

DATA DESCRIPTION;

EID: 78649519702     PISSN: 09269630     EISSN: 18798365     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.3233/978-1-60750-588-4-1070     Document Type: Conference Paper

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