TNM-O: ontology support for staging of malignant tumours.

Journal: Journal of biomedical semantics
Published Date: Nov 14, 2016

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Objectives of this work are to (1) present an ontological framework for the TNM classification system, (2) exemplify this framework by an ontology for colon and rectum tumours, and (3) evaluate this ontology by assigning TNM classes to real world pathology data.

Authors

  • Martin Boeker
    Institute for Medical Biometry and Statistics, Medical Center - University of Freiburg, Faculty of Medicine, Stefan-Meier-Str. 26, Freiburg i. Br., 79104, Germany. martin.boeker@uniklinik-freiburg.de.
  • Fábio França
    Institute for Medical Biometry and Statistics, Medical Center - University of Freiburg, Faculty of Medicine, Stefan-Meier-Str. 26, Freiburg i. Br., 79104, Germany.
  • Peter Bronsert
    Tumorbank Comprehensive Cancer Center Freiburg and Center for Surgical Pathology, Medical Center - University of Freiburg, Faculty of Medicine, Breisacher Straße 115a, Freiburg i. Br., 79106, Germany.
  • Stefan Schulz
    Institute for Medical Informatics, Statistics and Documentation, Medical University of Graz, Austria.

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