Visually defining and querying consistent multi-granular clinical temporal abstractions

Artificial Intelligence in Medicine

Volumn 54, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 75-101

  Combi, Carlo ^a   Oliboni, Barbara ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERONA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Hemodialysis data; Metaphors; Temporal abstractions; Temporal clinical data; Temporal granularities; Visual query languages

Indexed keywords

HEMODIALYSIS DATA; METAPHORS; TEMPORAL ABSTRACTION; TEMPORAL CLINICAL DATA; TEMPORAL GRANULARITY; VISUAL QUERY LANGUAGES;

ALGORITHMS; BRICK; DATA VISUALIZATION; DIALYSIS; HOSPITAL DATA PROCESSING; QUERY LANGUAGES; SPECIFICATIONS; VISUALIZATION;

ABSTRACTING;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; DECISION MAKING; HUMAN; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; INTUITION; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; SATISFACTION; TEMPORAL ABSTRACTION; TEMPORAL GRANULARITY; VISUAL INFORMATION; VISUAL QUERY LANGUAGE; VISUAL SYSTEM;

ABSTRACTING AND INDEXING AS TOPIC; ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; DATA MINING; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS, CLINICAL; DECISION SUPPORT TECHNIQUES; HUMANS; MEDICAL RECORDS SYSTEMS, COMPUTERIZED; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; RENAL DIALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TIME FACTORS; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 84855948244     PISSN: 09333657     EISSN: 18732860     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.artmed.2011.10.004     Document Type: Article

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