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Extending Temporal Databases to Deal with Telic/Atelic Medical Data

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Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (AIME 2005)

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In the area of Medical Informatics, there is an increasing realization that temporal information plays a crucial role, so that suitable database models and query languages are needed to store and support it. In this paper we show that current approaches developed within the database field have some limitations even from the point of view of the data model, so that an important class of temporal medical data cannot be properly represented. We propose a new three-sorted model and a query language that overcome such limitations.

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  1. DI, Univ. Piemonte Orientale “A. Avogadro”, Via Bellini 25, Alessandria, Italy

    Paolo Terenziani & Alessio Bottrighi

  2. Department of Computer Science, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, 85721, USA

    Richard T. Snodgrass

  3. Lab. Informatica Clinica, Az. Ospedaliera S. G. Battista, C.so Bramante 88, Torino, Italy

    Mauro Torchio & Gianpaolo Molino

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  1. Department of Information and Knowledge Engineering, Danube University Krems, Dr.-Karl-Dorrek-Str. 30, 3500, Krems, Austria

    Silvia Miksch

  2. Department of Computing Science, University of Aberdeen, AB24 3UE, Aberdeen, UK

    Jim Hunter

  3. Department of Computer Science, University of Cyprus, P.O.Box 20537, CY-1678, Nicosia, Cyprus

    Elpida T. Keravnou

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Terenziani, P., Snodgrass, R.T., Bottrighi, A., Torchio, M., Molino, G. (2005). Extending Temporal Databases to Deal with Telic/Atelic Medical Data. In: Miksch, S., Hunter, J., Keravnou, E.T. (eds) Artificial Intelligence in Medicine. AIME 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 3581. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11527770_9

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