Lister Hill National Center for Biomedical Communications (LHNCBC)
Harold M. Schoolman, M.D.
Acting Director, Lister Hill Center
Deputy Director for Research & Education, NLM
The Lister Hill National Center for Biomedical Communications (LHNCBC)
was established in 1968 as a research and development arm
of the
National Library of Medicine,
part of the U.S. National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, MD USA.
The LHNCBC is divided into five branches:
Among the principal activities of the LHNCBC are: development of the
Unified Medical Language System (UMLS) Project,
as well as work on scientific visualization and virtual reality,
medical expert systems, natural language processing,
computer-aided instruction, machine learning,
and the biomedical applications of high speed communication techniques.
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