Towards semantic search and inference in electronic medical records: An approach using concept-based information retrieval

Australasian Medical Journal

Volumn 5, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 482-488

  Koopman, Bevan ^a,b   Bruza, Peter ^b   Sitbon, Laurianne ^b   Lawley, Michael ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Electronic medical records; Health informatics; Information retrieval; Semantic search and inference

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION;

EID: 84867272790     PISSN: 18361935     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4066/AMJ.2012.1362     Document Type: Article

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