Developing a medical ontology in the domain of colon cancer.

Over 57,000 people are expected to die from colorectal cancer in 2003. When colorectal cancer is detected early, survival rates are much higher. Increasingly, members of the public seek healthcare information from the Internet. Even though more data are available on demand than ever before, the g...

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Main Author: Yeo, Evelyn Andrewina Wan Gek.
Other Authors: Khoo, Christopher Soo Guan
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Published: 2008
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spelling sg-ntu-dr.10356-20792019-12-10T12:27:10Z Developing a medical ontology in the domain of colon cancer. Yeo, Evelyn Andrewina Wan Gek. Khoo, Christopher Soo Guan Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information DRNTU::Library and information science::Libraries::Cataloguing and classification Over 57,000 people are expected to die from colorectal cancer in 2003. When colorectal cancer is detected early, survival rates are much higher. Increasingly, members of the public seek healthcare information from the Internet. Even though more data are available on demand than ever before, the gap in members of the public knowledge of health topics still thwarts their attempts to find information or make sense of what information they do receive (Stavri, 2001). Master of Science (Information Systems) 2008-09-10T08:39:05Z 2008-09-10T08:39:05Z 2004 2004 Thesis http://hdl.handle.net/10356/2079 Nanyang Technological University application/pdf
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Yeo, Evelyn Andrewina Wan Gek.
Developing a medical ontology in the domain of colon cancer.
description Over 57,000 people are expected to die from colorectal cancer in 2003. When colorectal cancer is detected early, survival rates are much higher. Increasingly, members of the public seek healthcare information from the Internet. Even though more data are available on demand than ever before, the gap in members of the public knowledge of health topics still thwarts their attempts to find information or make sense of what information they do receive (Stavri, 2001).
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author Yeo, Evelyn Andrewina Wan Gek.
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title Developing a medical ontology in the domain of colon cancer.
title_short Developing a medical ontology in the domain of colon cancer.
title_full Developing a medical ontology in the domain of colon cancer.
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