TrhOnt: building an ontology to assist rehabilitation processes.

Journal: Journal of biomedical semantics
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Abstract

BACKGROUND: One of the current research efforts in the area of biomedicine is the representation of knowledge in a structured way so that reasoning can be performed on it. More precisely, in the field of physiotherapy, information such as the physiotherapy record of a patient or treatment protocols for specific disorders must be adequately modeled, because they play a relevant role in the management of the evolutionary recovery process of a patient. In this scenario, we introduce TRHONT, an application ontology that can assist physiotherapists in the management of the patients' evolution via reasoning supported by semantic technology.

Authors

  • Idoia Berges
    University of the Basque Country, UPV/EHU, Paseo Manuel de Lardizabal, 1, Donostia-San Sebastián, 20018, Spain. idoia.berges@ehu.eus.
  • David Antón
    University of the Basque Country, UPV/EHU, Paseo Manuel de Lardizabal, 1, Donostia-San Sebastián, 20018, Spain.
  • Jesús Bermúdez
    University of the Basque Country, UPV/EHU, Paseo Manuel de Lardizabal, 1, Donostia-San Sebastián, 20018, Spain.
  • Alfredo Goñi
    University of the Basque Country, UPV/EHU, Paseo Manuel de Lardizabal, 1, Donostia-San Sebastián, 20018, Spain.
  • Arantza Illarramendi
    University of the Basque Country, UPV/EHU, Paseo Manuel de Lardizabal, 1, Donostia-San Sebastián, 20018, Spain.