Artificial Intelligence in Medicine
Volume 39, Issue 1 , Pages 1-24 , January 2007

Temporal abstraction in intelligent clinical data analysis: A survey

Received 14 December 2005 ,Revised 6 August 2006 ,Accepted 7 August 2006.

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doi: 10.1016/j.artmed.2006.08.002

Artificial Intelligence in Medicine
Volume 39, Issue 1 , Pages 1-24 , January 2007

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