Artificial Intelligence in Medicine
Volume 38, Issue 2 , Pages 157-170 , October 2006

Spatiotemporal reasoning about epidemiological data

  • Peter Revesz

      Affiliations

    • Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE 68588, USA
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +1 402 472 3488; Fax: +1 402 472 7767.
    • Part of this work was done while the author was visiting the Max Planck Institut für Informatik, Saarbrücken, Germany.
    • ,
  • Shasha Wu

      Affiliations

    • Computer Science Department, Spring Arbor University, Spring Arbor, MI 49283, USA
    • Part of the work presented here was done while the author was at UNL.

Received 23 December 2004 ,Revised 5 May 2006 ,Accepted 8 May 2006.

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doi: 10.1016/j.artmed.2006.05.001

Artificial Intelligence in Medicine
Volume 38, Issue 2 , Pages 157-170 , October 2006

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