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Visual Definition of Temporal Clinical Abstractions: A User Interface Based on Novel Metaphors

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In this paper, we describe a novel user interface for the visual definition of temporal abstractions based on a set of intuitive metaphors, which represent both temporal features and logical relations of abstractions.

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  1. Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Udine, via delle Scienze 206, 33100, Udine, Italy

    Luca Chittaro & Carlo Combi

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  1. Luca Chittaro
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  1. Department of Computer Science, University of Pavia, Via Ferrata, 1, 27100, Pavia, Italy

    Silvana Quaglini

  2. Departamento de Informática Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, 2825-114, Caparica, Portugal

    Pedro Barahona

  3. Department of Medical Informatics and Image Analysis, Aalborg University, Fredrik Bajersv ej 7D, 9220, AlborgØst, Denmark

    Steen Andreassen

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Chittaro, L., Combi, C. (2001). Visual Definition of Temporal Clinical Abstractions: A User Interface Based on Novel Metaphors. In: Quaglini, S., Barahona, P., Andreassen, S. (eds) Artificial Intelligence in Medicine. AIME 2001. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 2101. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-48229-6_32

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