MedReader

Author

Techatanachuen, Nattavut ; Roengsamut, Boonsita ; Suntisrivaraporn, Boontawee

Author_Institution

Sch. of Inf., Comput. & Commun. Technol., Thammasat Univ., Pathumthani, Thailand

fYear

2013

fDate

15-17 May 2013

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

MedReader is a web application that employs the advance of ontology as its knowledgebase. Acting as an online article reader, MedReader benefits non-experts who are interested in reading online medical articles but have trouble comprehending all the technical terminologies appearing therein. In order to help its users mentally grasp the main idea of the article, the reader variegates technical terms that match the concepts in SNOMED-CT, a comprehensive medical ontology. Not only are the users informed a succinct textual definition of the medical terms, but key relationships between terms especially the is-a relationships can also be displayed at a mouse click. This paper describes MedReader, its architectural design and usability evaluation. With the rich coverage of technical terms in SNOMED-CT and the easy-to-use interface of MedReader, our evaluation demonstrates that the majority of users gain better understanding of medical articles when reading with the tool.

Keywords

Internet; medical information systems; ontologies (artificial intelligence); software architecture; text analysis; user interfaces; MedReader; SNOMED-CT; Web application; architectural design; comprehensive medical ontology; easy-to-use interface; knowledge base; medical domain; medical term; mouse click; online article reader; online medical article reading; ontology-enhanced article reader; technical terminologies; textual definition; usability evaluation; Diseases; Drugs; Heart; Ontologies; Terminology; Visualization; Medical article reader; Ontology; SNOMED-CT; Text variegation;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electrical Engineering/Electronics, Computer, Telecommunications and Information Technology (ECTI-CON), 2013 10th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Krabi

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-0546-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ECTICon.2013.6559552

Filename

6559552