Mining characteristics of epidemiological studies from medline: A case study in obesity

Journal of Biomedical Semantics

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Karystianis, George ^a,b   Buchan, Iain ^b,c   Nenadic, Goran ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b Kellogg Europe   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Epidemiology; Key characteristics; Rule based methodology; Text mining

Indexed keywords

EID: 84927943696     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411480     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/2041-1480-5-22     Document Type: Article

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