MetaMed — Medical meta data extraction and manipulation tool used in the semantically interoperable research information system

Author

Vcelak, Petr ; Kratochvil, Michal ; Kleckova, Jana ; Rohan, Vladimir

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Eng., Univ. of West Bohemia in Pilsen, Plzen, Czech Republic

fYear

2012

fDate

16-18 Oct. 2012

Firstpage

1270

Lastpage

1274

Abstract

The MetaMed is a tool for data and meta data extraction primarily from a heterogeneous medical data. It is a non-interactive command line open source application for processing a large amount of data. An extracted meta data is stored in the Resource Description Framework and is structured by OWL ontologies. It enables a semantic interoperability. Meta data as an index data prevents us to solve different file format and version of raw files again and again for a following research. It enables a better performance. Indexed data can be directly used in a user interface and querying for an appropriate raw data can be done. The MetaMed and the research information system is confirmed with research primarily focused on a cerebrovascular diseases.

Keywords

data handling; diseases; medical information systems; meta data; ontologies (artificial intelligence); open systems; MetaMed tool; OWL ontologies; Web ontology language; cerebrovascular diseases; heterogeneous medical data; medical meta data extraction tool; medical meta data manipulation tool; resource description framework; semantic interoperability; semantically interoperable research information system; user interface; DASTA; DICOM; extract meta data; interoperability; medical data; ontology;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Biomedical Engineering and Informatics (BMEI), 2012 5th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Chongqing

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-1183-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/BMEI.2012.6513038

Filename

6513038