Formalization of clinical trial eligibility criteria: Evaluation of a pattern-based approach

Proceedings - 2012 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine, BIBM 2012

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 495-498

  Miliari, Krystyna ^a,b   Bucur, Anca ^b   Ten Teije, Annette ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b PHILIPS RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

clinical trials; formalization of eligibility criteria; supporting clinical trial recruitment

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTEXTUAL INFORMATION; FORMALIZATION OF ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA; FREE TEXTS; PATTERN DETECTION ALGORITHMS; PRECISION AND RECALL; SEMANTIC ENTITY; SEMANTIC TAGGER; SEMI-AUTOMATICS;

BIOINFORMATICS; DIAGNOSIS; EXPERIMENTS; SEMANTICS;

MEDICAL APPLICATIONS;

EID: 84872556421     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/BIBM.2012.6392733     Document Type: Conference Paper

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