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Treatment of Disease: The Role of Knowledge Representation for Treatment Selection

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Treatment is the care and management of a patient to combat, ameliorate, or prevent a disease, disorder, or injury.

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Davis, J., Sucar, L.E., Orihuela-Espina, F. (2015). Treatment of Disease: The Role of Knowledge Representation for Treatment Selection. In: Hommersom, A., Lucas, P. (eds) Foundations of Biomedical Knowledge Representation. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9521. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-28007-3_15

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