HeNeCOn: An ontology for integrative research in Head and Neck cancer.
Journal:
International journal of medical informatics
Published Date:
Nov 8, 2023
Abstract
BACKGROUND: Head and Neck Cancer (HNC) has a high incidence and prevalence in the worldwide population. The broad terminology associated with these diseases and their multimodality treatments generates large amounts of heterogeneous clinical data, which motivates the construction of a high-quality harmonization model to standardize this multi-source clinical data in terms of format and semantics. The use of ontologies and semantic techniques is a well-known approach to face this challenge.