A medical ontology library that integrates the UMLS Metathesaurus™

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 1620, Issue , 1999, Pages 239-248

  Pisanelli, Domenico M ^a   Gangemi, Aldo ^a   Steve, Geri ^a  

^a CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; DECISION MAKING; HOSPITAL DATA PROCESSING; INFORMATION USE; MEDICAL COMPUTING; MEDICINE; ONTOLOGY; SEMANTICS; TERMINOLOGY;

HEALTH CARE INFORMATION SYSTEM; KNOWLEDGE-SHARING; MEDICAL TERMINOLOGIES; MULTIPLE CLASSIFICATION; ONTOLOGICAL ANALYSIS; ONTOLOGICAL APPROACH; TERMINOLOGY SYSTEM; UMLS METATHESAURUS;

MEDICAL INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 84956856788     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-48720-4_26     Document Type: Conference Paper

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