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Applications of Clinical Text Mining

  • Hercules Dalianis
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This chapter presents various applications of clinical text mining that all use the electronic patient record text as input data.

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  • Hercules Dalianis
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  1. 1.DSV-Stockholm UniversityKistaSweden

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