Ontologies in Medical Knowledge Representation

Author

Jovic, Alan ; Prcela, Marin ; Gamberger, Dragan

Author_Institution

Rudjer Boskovic Inst., Zagreb

fYear

2007

fDate

25-28 June 2007

Firstpage

535

Lastpage

540

Abstract

In this work structure of medical ontologies and their construction process are presented. For each medical domain one has to specify the scope of the ontology, acquire medical knowledge, select a tool and an ontology language, design the ontology, and present it in an appropriate way. Special attention is devoted to the problem of representing relevant medical knowledge in the form of ontology. Connection of an ontology with a rule base as a part of a decision support system is established. The ontology of the heart failure disorder, designed for the use in Heartfaid platform, is used to explain the ontology construction process.

Keywords

cardiology; decision support systems; knowledge based systems; knowledge representation languages; medical computing; ontologies (artificial intelligence); Heartfaid platform; decision support system; heart failure disorder; knowledge base; medical knowledge representation; medical ontologies; ontology construction process; ontology language; rule base; Artificial intelligence; Decision support systems; Guidelines; Heart; Knowledge representation; Medical diagnostic imaging; Medical services; Ontologies; Terminology; Unified modeling language; decision support system; knowledge base; medical knowledge; medical ontology; ontology design;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Information Technology Interfaces, 2007. ITI 2007. 29th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Cavtat

ISSN

1330-1012

Print_ISBN

953-7138-10-0

Electronic_ISBN

1330-1012

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ITI.2007.4283828

Filename

4283828