1. A method for use of a medical ontology for computer assisted clinical decision support, the method comprising: identifying, with a processor of a data mining system, a plurality of associated terms from a medical ontology; generating, with the processor of the data mining system, a domain-knowledge base from the associated terms; and mining, with the data mining system, a medical record as a function of the domain-knowledge base.
1. A method for use of a medical ontology for computer assisted clinical decision support, the method comprising: identifying, with a processor of a data mining system, a plurality of associated terms from a medical ontology; generating, with the processor of the data mining system, a domain-knowledge base from the associated terms; and mining, with the data mining system, a medical record as a function of the domain-knowledge base. 2. The method of claim 1 wherein identifying comprises identifying the associated terms as having a IS-A type relationship from the medical ontology.