Distributed, intelligent, interactive visualization and exploration of time-oriented clinical data and their abstractions
Artificial Intelligence in MedicinePublished 19 December 2005
Yuval Shaḥar, Dina Goren‐Bar, David Boaz, Gil Tahan
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Initial evaluation of KNAVE-II and its supporting knowledge based temporal-mediation architecture, by applying it to a large data base of patients monitored several years after bone marrow transplantation (BMT), has produced highly encouraging results.
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Initial evaluation of KNAVE-II and its supporting knowledge based temporal-mediation architecture, by applying it to a large data base of patients monitored several years after bone marrow transplantation (BMT), has produced highly encouraging results.
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