Methods and applications for visualization of SNOMED CT concept sets

A.R. Højen; E. Sundvall; K.R. Gøeg

doi:10.4338/ACI-2013-09-RA-0071

Applied Clinical Informatics, Table of Contents

Appl Clin Inform 2014; 05(01): 127-152
DOI: 10.4338/ACI-2013-09-RA-0071

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Methods and applications for visualization of SNOMED CT concept sets

A.R. Højen

¹Department of Health Science and Technology, Medical Informatics, Aalborg University, Denmark

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E. Sundvall

²Department of Biomedical Engineering, Linköping University, Sweden

³County Council of Östergötland, Sweden

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K.R. Gøeg

¹Department of Health Science and Technology, Medical Informatics, Aalborg University, Denmark

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Clinical terminology - Implementation - SNOMED CT - Information Visualization - knowledge representation

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