Similarity of Medical Cases in Health Care Using Cosine Similarity and Ontology
Summary
Application domain any medical domain
System context electronic medical records
Task / problem addressed retrieval task – finding similar cases represented with structured and semi-structured data
Research hypothesis a hybrid similarity measure based on combining the cosine similarity measure, an ontology, and the nearest neighbor method permit to successfully retrieve similar cases
Main contribution synergy between case-based reasoning and information retrieval.
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