International Journal of Medical Informatics
Volume 75, Issue 3 , Pages 257-267 , March 2006

Databases for knowledge discovery: Examples from biomedicine and health care

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☆ This paper is the written version of an invited lecture given at the Plenary Session of the Conference EuroMISE 2004, in April 2004, at Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic. This conference was organized by the European Center for Medical Informatics, Statistics and Epidemiology (EuroMISE). Part of this paper was also presented in Brussels in September 2003 as a contribution to the deliberations on the European Research Area.

PII: S1386-5056(05)00153-X

doi: 10.1016/j.ijmedinf.2005.08.012

International Journal of Medical Informatics
Volume 75, Issue 3 , Pages 257-267 , March 2006

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