Artificial Intelligence in Medicine
Volume 39, Issue 3 , Pages 183-195 , March 2007

Investigating subsumption in SNOMED CT: An exploration into large description logic-based biomedical terminologies

  • 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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  • Barry Smith

      Affiliations

    • Institute for Formal Ontology and Medical Information Science, Saarland University, Germany
    • Department of Philosophy, University at Buffalo, New York, USA
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  • Anand Kumar

      Affiliations

    • Institute for Formal Ontology and Medical Information Science, Saarland University, Germany
    • ,
  • Anita Burgun

      Affiliations

    • EA 3888 Laboratoire d’Informatique Médicale, Université de Rennes I, France

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

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PII: S0933-3657(06)00190-4

doi: 10.1016/j.artmed.2006.12.003

Artificial Intelligence in Medicine
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