Artificial Intelligence in Medicine
Volume 39, Issue 3 , Pages 217-225 , March 2007

Using semantic dependencies for consistency management of an ontology of brain–cortex anatomy

  • Olivier Dameron

      Affiliations

    • EA 3888, Université de Rennes 1, 2 Rue Henri Le Guilloux, F-35033 Rennes, France
    • Stanford Medical Informatics, Stanford University, 251 Campus Drive, X-215, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author at: EA 3888, Université de Rennes 1, 2 Rue Henri Le Guilloux, F-35033 Rennes, France. Tel: +33 2 99 28 92 45; fax: +33 2 99 28 41 60.
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  • Mark A. Musen

      Affiliations

    • Stanford Medical Informatics, Stanford University, 251 Campus Drive, X-215, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
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  • Bernard Gibaud

      Affiliations

    • Équipe/Projet VisAGeS U746, INSERM/INRIA/CNRS/Université de Rennes 1, 2 Avenue du Pr Léon Bernard, F-35043 Rennes Cedex, France

Received 28 September 2004 ,Revised 19 September 2006 ,Accepted 22 September 2006.

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PII: S0933-3657(06)00187-4

doi: 10.1016/j.artmed.2006.09.004

Artificial Intelligence in Medicine
Volume 39, Issue 3 , Pages 217-225 , March 2007