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CodeSlinger: An Interactive Biomedical Ontology Browser

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CodeSlinger is a highly interactive and semi-intelligent application designed to support the search and navigation of large biomedical coding schemes, thesauri, and ontologies. We discuss how CodeSlinger is used by epidemiologist/physicians in the creation of coding sets for data extraction and analysis, the exploratory nature of the application, and finally, the issues facing our knowledge-representation model and extension of the UMLS.

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Painter, J.L., Flowers, N.L. (2009). CodeSlinger: An Interactive Biomedical Ontology Browser. In: Combi, C., Shahar, Y., Abu-Hanna, A. (eds) Artificial Intelligence in Medicine. AIME 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 5651. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-02976-9_38

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