Date of Award
Spring 5-31-1997
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Science in Computer Science - (M.S.)
Department
Computer and Information Science
First Advisor
Yehoshua Perl
Second Advisor
James Geller
Third Advisor
Michael Halper
Abstract
Computers have become ubiquitous and indispensable part of everyday life both for personal use and in the workplace. Medicine is one of the few domains that has not fully adopted computerization. One impediment to this emanates from a communication gap between the computer science professional and the medical professional. Besides, medical terminology is full of synonyms and medical professionals use them according to their personal preferences. This lack of common terminology has prevented sharing of knowledge and automating data processing, resulting in the healthcare information explosion.
Recommended Citation
Singh, Mansnimar, "Object oriented partitioning for a medical vocabulary based on semantic network" (1997). Theses. 1035.
https://digitalcommons.njit.edu/theses/1035