From concept representations to ontologies: A paradigm shift in health informatics?

Healthcare Informatics Research

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 235-242

  Schulz, Stefan ^a   Balkanyi, Laszlo ^b   Cornet, Ronald ^c,d   Bodenreider, Olivier ^e  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^b EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR DISEASE PREVENTION AND CONTROL ECDC   (Sweden)

^c ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^d LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^e NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Data mining; Publishing; Semantics; Terminology; Vocabulary

Indexed keywords

EID: 84892150562     PISSN: 20933681     EISSN: 2093369X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4258/hir.2013.19.4.235     Document Type: Review

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