Using the distance between sets of hierarchical taxonomic clinical concepts to measure patient similarity

Using the distance between sets of hierarchical taxonomic clinical concepts to measure patient similarity

Abstract Background Many clinical concepts are standardized under a categorical and hierarchical taxonomy such as ICD-10, ATC, etc. These taxonomic clinical concepts provide insight into semantic meaning and similarity among clinical concepts and have been applied to patient similarity measures. How...

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Main Authors: Zheng Jia, Xudong Lu, Huilong Duan, Haomin Li
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2019-04-01
Series:BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making
Subjects:
Taxonomic concept
Patient similarity
Concept similarity
Predictive model
ICD-10
Data visualization
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12911-019-0807-y

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