A rule-based transformation system for converting semi-structured medical documents

Health and Technology

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 51-63

  Heurix, Johannes ^a   Rella, Antonio ^b   Fenz, Stefan ^c   Neubauer, Thomas ^c  

^a SBA RESEARCH   (Austria)

^b XiTrust Secure Technologies GmbH   (Austria)

^c VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Clinical document architecture; Information extraction; Semi structured text; Text transformation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING;

EID: 84876004764     PISSN: 21907188     EISSN: 21907196     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12553-013-0040-0     Document Type: Article

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