Artificial Intelligence in Medicine
Volume 39, Issue 3 , Pages 227-236 , March 2007

Comparing two approaches for aligning representations of anatomy

  • Songmao Zhang

      Affiliations

    • Institute of Mathematics, Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, PR China
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  • Peter Mork

      Affiliations

    • The MITRE Corporation, McLean, VA, USA
    • ,
  • Olivier Bodenreider

      Affiliations

    • U.S. National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +1 301 435 3246; fax: +1 301 480 3035.
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  • Philip A. Bernstein

      Affiliations

    • Microsoft Research, Redmond, WA, USA

Received 12 October 2004 ,Revised 10 December 2006 ,Accepted 11 December 2006.

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PII: S0933-3657(06)00189-8

doi: 10.1016/j.artmed.2006.12.002

Artificial Intelligence in Medicine
Volume 39, Issue 3 , Pages 227-236 , March 2007

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