Towards an ontological representation of morbidity and mortality in Description Logics

Journal of Biomedical Semantics

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Santana, Filipe ^a   Freitas, Fred ^a   Fernandes, Roberta ^a   Medeiros, Zulma ^b,c   Schober, Daniel ^d  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PERNAMBUCO   (Brazil)

^b INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ   (Brazil)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PERNAMBUCO   (Brazil)

^d UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

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EID: 84925282330     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411480     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/2041-1480-3-S2-S7     Document Type: Article

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