Artificial Intelligence in Medicine
Volume 51, Issue 1 , Pages 17-25 , January 2011

Exploiting the systematic review protocol for classification of medical abstracts

  • Oana Frunza

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    • School of Information Technology and Engineering, University of Ottawa, 800 King Edward, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1N 6N5
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +1 613 562 5800x2140; fax: +1 613 562 5175.
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  • Diana Inkpen

      Affiliations

    • School of Information Technology and Engineering, University of Ottawa, 800 King Edward, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1N 6N5
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  • Stan Matwin

      Affiliations

    • School of Information Technology and Engineering, University of Ottawa, 800 King Edward, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1N 6N5
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  • William Klement

      Affiliations

    • School of Information Technology and Engineering, University of Ottawa, 800 King Edward, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1N 6N5
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  • Peter O’Blenis

      Affiliations

    • Evidence Partners Corporation, 9 Wick Crescent, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1J 7H1

Received 18 January 2008 ,Revised 22 September 2010 ,Accepted 14 October 2010.

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PII: S0933-3657(10)00124-7

doi: 10.1016/j.artmed.2010.10.005

Artificial Intelligence in Medicine
Volume 51, Issue 1 , Pages 17-25 , January 2011