An ontology-guided semantic data integration framework to support integrative data analysis of cancer survival

Abstract Background Cancer is the second leading cause of death in the United States, exceeded only by heart disease. Extant cancer survival analyses have primarily focused on individual-level factors due to limited data availability from a single data source. There is a need to integrate data from...

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Main Authors: Hansi Zhang, Yi Guo, Qian Li, Thomas J. George, Elizabeth Shenkman, François Modave, Jiang Bian
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2018-07-01
Series:BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12911-018-0636-4