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COMMA
2010
13 years 6 months ago
Qualitative Evidence Aggregation using Argumentation
Evidence-based decision making is becoming increasingly important in many diverse domains, including healthcare, environmental management, and government. This has raised the need ...
Anthony Hunter, Matthew Williams
SEMWEB
2010
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Using Semantic Web Technologies for Clinical Trial Recruitment
Abstract. Clinical trials are fundamental for medical science: they provide the evaluation for new treatments and new diagnostic approaches. One of the most difficult parts of clin...
Paolo Besana, Marc Cuggia, Oussama Zekri, Annabel ...
ICTAI
2010
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
Argumentation for Aggregating Clinical Evidence
Abstract--Evidence-based decision making is becoming increasingly important in healthcare. Much valuable evidence is in the form of the results from clinical trials that compare th...
Anthony Hunter, Matthew Williams
ARTMED
2004
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13 years 11 months ago
Selection of patients for clinical trials: an interactive web-based system
The purpose of a clinical trial is to evaluate a new treatment procedure. When medical researchers conduct a trial, they recruit participants with appropriate health problems and ...
Eugene Fink, Princeton K. Kokku, Savvas Nikiforou,...
HIJ
2008
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13 years 11 months ago
Supporting grid-based clinical trials in Scotland
As clinical trials and medical population studies grow in size and complexity, a computational infrastructure that can underpin such studies is highly desirable. This should addre...
Richard O. Sinnott, A. J. Stell, Oluwafemi Ajayi
AIME
2009
Springer
14 years 17 days ago
Argumentation about Treatment Efficacy
Abstract The volume and complexity of knowledge produced by medical research calls for the development of technology for automated management and analysis of such knowledge. In thi...
Nikos Gorogiannis, Anthony Hunter, Vivek Patkar, M...
ECIS
2000
14 years 24 days ago
Secure Access to Medical Data over the Internet
The concept of context-dependent access control has emerged during the last years: Information about the state of a process model of a working environment is combined with general ...
Ulrich Ultes-Nitsche, Stephanie Teufel
IICAI
2007
14 years 26 days ago
Extractive Summarization in Clinical Trials Protocol Summaries: A Case Study
This paper presents a method for extracting purpose statements from clinical trial protocol summaries. Simple summarization technology based on regular expressions and natural lang...
Graciela Rosemblat, Laurel Graham, Tony Tse
BIOSTEC
2008
148views Healthcare» more  BIOSTEC 2008»
14 years 27 days ago
Representing and Reasoning with Temporal Constraints in Clinical Trials Using Semantic Technologies
Clinical trial protocols include schedule of clinical trial activities such as clinical tests, procedures, and medications. The schedule specifies temporal constraints on the seque...
Ravi D. Shankar, Susana B. Martins, Martin J. O'Co...
WSC
2007
14 years 1 months ago
A discrete event model of clinical trial enrollment at Eli Lilly and company
Clinical trials constitute large, complex, and resource intensive activities for pharmaceutical companies. Accurate prediction of patient enrollment would represent a major step f...
Bernard M. McGarvey, Nancy J. Dynes, Burch C. Lin,...