Methods in Medical Informatics : Fundamentals of Healthcare Programming in Perl, Python, and Ruby


Jules J. Berman
Bok Engelsk 2010 · Electronic books.
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Hoboken : : Chapman & Hall/CRC, , 2010.
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1 online resource (402 p.)
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Description based upon print version of record.. - Front cover; Contents; Preface; Nota Bene; About the Author; Part I: FundamentalAlgorithmsand Methodsof Medical Informati cs; Body; Chapter 1: Parsing and Transforming Text Files; Chapter 2: Utility Scripts; Chapter 3: Viewing and Modifying Images; Chapter 4: Indexing Text; Part II: Medical Data Resources; Chapter 5: The National Libraryof Medicine's MedicalSubject Headings (MeSH; Chapter 7: SEER; Chapter 8: OMIM; Chapter 9: PubMed; Chapter 10: Taxonomy; Chapter 11: Developmental LineageClassification andTaxonomy of Neoplasms; Chapter 12: U.S. Census Files. - Chapter 13: Centers for Disease Controland Pre vention Mortality FilesPart III: Primary Tasks of Medical Informatics; Chapter 14: Autocoding; Chapter 15: Text Scrubber forDeidentifying Confidential Text; Chapter 16: Web Pages and CGI Scripts; Chapter 17: Image Annotation; Chapter 18: Describing Data with Data Using XML; Part IV: Medical Discovery; Chapter 19: Case Study; Chapter 20: Case Study; Chapter 21: Case Study; Chapter 22: Case Study; Chapter 23: Case Study; Chapter 24: Case Study; Chapter 25: Case Study; Chapter 26: Case Study; Chapter 27: Case Study. - Epilogue for Healthcare Professionalsand Medical ScientistsAppendix; Back cover. - A user friendly, step-by-step practical guide for applying basic informatics algorithms to medical data sets, this book includes examples using three most common programming languages (Perl, Python, and Ruby). The author employs a minimal selection of commands for quick learning, and references only free, publicly available resources. This book demonstrates how easy it is to master the wide variety of data types encountered in a healthcare setting with just a few simple programming commands. It provides basic methods for retrieving, organizing, merging, and analyzing their data sources. It cov
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