Artificial Intelligence in Medicine
Volume 39, Issue 2 , Pages 113-126 , February 2007

Extending temporal databases to deal with telic/atelic medical data

  • Paolo Terenziani

      Affiliations

    • Dipartimento di Informatica, Universitá Piemonte Orientale “A. Avogadro”, Via Bellini 25, Alessandria, Italy
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +39 0131 360174; fax +39 0131 360198.
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  • Richard T. Snodgrass

      Affiliations

    • Department of Computer Science, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA
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  • Alessio Bottrighi

      Affiliations

    • Dipartimento di Informatica, Universitá Piemonte Orientale “A. Avogadro”, Via Bellini 25, Alessandria, Italy
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  • Mauro Torchio

      Affiliations

    • Laboratorio Informatica Clinica, Azienda Ospedaliera S.G. Battista, C.so Bramante 88, Torino, Italy
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  • Gianpaolo Molino

      Affiliations

    • Laboratorio Informatica Clinica, Azienda Ospedaliera S.G. Battista, C.so Bramante 88, Torino, Italy

Received 16 January 2006 ,Revised 4 August 2006 ,Accepted 5 August 2006.

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☆ This is an extended and revised version of the Paper Presented in the Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (AIME 05).

PII: S0933-3657(06)00135-7

doi: 10.1016/j.artmed.2006.08.003

Artificial Intelligence in Medicine
Volume 39, Issue 2 , Pages 113-126 , February 2007

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