Title :
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
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;
Conference_Titel :
Biomedical Engineering and Informatics (BMEI), 2012 5th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Chongqing
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-1183-0
DOI :
10.1109/BMEI.2012.6513038
