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Advanced Computational Intelligence Paradigms in Healthcare – 1 pp 189–224Cite as

Modeling Treatment Processes Using Information Extraction

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  1. Vienna University of Technology Institute of Software Technology & Interactive Systems, Vienna, Austria

    Katharina Kaiser

  2. Department of Information & Knowledge Engineering, Danube University Krems, Krems, Austria

    Silvia Miksch

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  1. Department of Radiology, Harvard University, Blossom Court 75, 2114, Boston, USA

    Hiro Yoshida

  2. The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Woodville Road, 5011, Woodville, Australia

    Ashlesha Jain

  3. Independant Living Centre, Blacks Road 11, 5095, Adelaide, Australia

    Ajita Ichalkaranje

  4. School of Electrical and Information Engineering, University of South Australia, Mawson Lakes Campus, 5095, South Australia, Australia

    Lakhmi C. Jain

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Kaiser, K., Miksch, S. (2007). Modeling Treatment Processes Using Information Extraction. In: Yoshida, H., Jain, A., Ichalkaranje, A., Jain, L.C., Ichalkaranje, N. (eds) Advanced Computational Intelligence Paradigms in Healthcare – 1. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 48. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-47527-9_8

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