EliXR: An approach to eligibility criteria extraction and representation

Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association

Volumn 18, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2011, Pages 116-124

  Weng, Chunhua ^a   Wu, Xiaoying ^b   Luo, Zhihui ^a   Boland, Mary Regina ^a   Theodoratos, Dimitri ^b   Johnson, Stephen B ^a  

^a Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^b University Heights   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; CLINICAL RESEARCH; DATA EXTRACTION; ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA EXTRACTION AND REPRESENTATION; HUMAN; INTERRATER RELIABILITY; KNOWLEDGE; MEDICAL INFORMATION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SEMANTICS; UNIFIED MEDICAL LANGUAGE SYSTEM; ALGORITHM; DATA MINING; MEDICAL RESEARCH; METHODOLOGY; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PATIENT SELECTION;

ALGORITHMS; BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; DATA MINING; ELIGIBILITY DETERMINATION; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; PATIENT SELECTION; SEMANTICS; UNIFIED MEDICAL LANGUAGE SYSTEM;

EID: 84863557848     PISSN: 10675027     EISSN: 1527974X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/amiajnl-2011-000321     Document Type: Article

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