SeDeLo: Using semantics and description logics to support aided clinical diagnosis

Journal of Medical Systems

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 2471-2481

  Rodríguez González, Alejandro ^a   Labra Gayo, Jose Emilio ^b   Colomo Palacios, Ricardo ^a   Mayer, Miguel A ^c   Gómez Berbís, Juan Miguel ^a   García Crespo, Angel ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD CARLOS III DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OVIEDO   (Spain)

^c INST MUNIC D INVESTIGACIO MEDICA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Clinical diagnosis; Description logics; Ontologies; Semantic technologies

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUTHOR; AUTOMATION; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; EVALUATION; MEDICAL TERMINOLOGY; PROCESS DEVELOPMENT; SEMANTICS; COMPUTER PROGRAM; HUMAN; KNOWLEDGE BASE; LINGUISTICS;

DIAGNOSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; HUMANS; KNOWLEDGE BASES; SEMANTICS; SOFTWARE DESIGN; VOCABULARY, CONTROLLED;

EID: 84861339802     PISSN: 01485598     EISSN: 1573689X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10916-011-9714-1     Document Type: Article

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