Artificial Intelligence in Medicine
Volume 48, Issue 1 , Pages 21-28 , January 2010

Semantic SenseLab: Implementing the vision of the Semantic Web in neuroscience

  • Matthias Samwald

      Affiliations

    • Center for Medical Informatics, Yale University School of Medicine, 300 George Street, New Haven, CT 06520-8009, USA
    • Digital Enterprise Research Institute, National University of Ireland Galway, IDA Business Park, Lower Dangan, Galway, Ireland
    • Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research, Adolf Lorenz Gasse 2, A-3422 Altenberg, Austria
    • Section on Medical Expert and Knowledge-Based Systems, Medical University of Vienna, Spitalgasse 23, A-1090 Vienna, Austria
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author at: Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research, Adolf Lorenz Gasse 2, A-3422 Altenberg, Austria. Tel.: +43 2242 32390x19; fax: +43 2242 323904.
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  • Huajun Chen

      Affiliations

    • Center for Medical Informatics, Yale University School of Medicine, 300 George Street, New Haven, CT 06520-8009, USA
    • College of Computer Science, Zhejiang University, 310027 Hangzhou, China
    • ,
  • Alan Ruttenberg

      Affiliations

    • Science Commons, c/o Massachusetts Institute of Technology Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Building 32-386D, 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
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  • Ernest Lim

      Affiliations

    • Center for Medical Informatics, Yale University School of Medicine, 300 George Street, New Haven, CT 06520-8009, USA
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  • Luis Marenco

      Affiliations

    • Center for Medical Informatics, Yale University School of Medicine, 300 George Street, New Haven, CT 06520-8009, USA
    • Department of Anesthesiology, Yale University School of Medicine, 333 Cedar Street, New Haven, CT 06520-8051, USA
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  • Perry Miller

      Affiliations

    • Center for Medical Informatics, Yale University School of Medicine, 300 George Street, New Haven, CT 06520-8009, USA
    • Department of Anesthesiology, Yale University School of Medicine, 333 Cedar Street, New Haven, CT 06520-8051, USA
    • Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520-8009, USA
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  • Gordon Shepherd

      Affiliations

    • Department of Neurobiology, Yale University School of Medicine, 333 Cedar Street, New Haven, CT 06520-8051, USA
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  • Kei-Hoi Cheung

      Affiliations

    • Center for Medical Informatics, Yale University School of Medicine, 300 George Street, New Haven, CT 06520-8009, USA
    • Department of Anesthesiology, Yale University School of Medicine, 333 Cedar Street, New Haven, CT 06520-8051, USA
    • Department of Genetics, Yale University School of Medicine, 333 Cedar Street, New Haven, CT 06520-8005, USA
    • Department of Computer Science, Yale University, 51 Prospect Street, New Haven, CT 06511, USA

Received 24 August 2007 ,Revised 6 October 2009 ,Accepted 16 November 2009.

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PII: S0933-3657(09)00162-6

doi: 10.1016/j.artmed.2009.11.003

Artificial Intelligence in Medicine
Volume 48, Issue 1 , Pages 21-28 , January 2010

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