Use of Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) in Portuguese for categorizing web-based healthcare content

Journal of Biomedical Informatics

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 299-309

  Mancini, Felipe ^a,b   Sousa, Fernando Sequeira ^a   Teixeira, Fábio Oliveira ^a   Falcão, Alex Esteves Jacoud ^a   Hummel, Anderson Diniz ^a   da Costa, Thiago Martini ^a   Calado, Pável Pereira ^c   de Araújo, Luciano Vieira ^d   Pisa, Ivan Torres ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b INSTITUTO FEDERAL DE EDUCAÇÃO   (Brazil)

^c INSTITUTO SUPERIOR TÉCNICO   (Portugal)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Consumer health information; Indexing; Information storage and retrieval; Internet; Medical Subject Headings

Indexed keywords

AREA UNDER THE ROC CURVE; AUTOMATED CLASSIFIERS; CONSUMER HEALTH INFORMATION; CONTENT-BASED; INDEXING; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; INTERNET USERS; LAY PUBLIC; MEDICAL SUBJECT HEADINGS; NAIVE BAYES; PATTERN CLASSIFICATION; SPECIALIZED TOOLS; TEXT CLASSIFICATION; VECTOR METHOD; VECTOR PATTERNS; WEB PAGE;

HEALTH; HEALTH CARE; INDEXING (OF INFORMATION); INTERNET; TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS; TEXT PROCESSING;

WORLD WIDE WEB;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; BIOINFORMATICS; BRAZIL; CLASSIFICATION; INTERNET; LANGUAGE; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MESH HEADING; PORTUGAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

BRAZIL; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; INTERNET; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; MEDICAL SUBJECT HEADINGS; MEDLINE;

EID: 79952751561     PISSN: 15320464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbi.2010.12.002     Document Type: Article

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