BMC medical informatics and decision making
Dec 15, 2020
BACKGROUND: The Kentucky Cancer Registry (KCR) is a central cancer registry for the state of Kentucky that receives data about incident cancer cases from all healthcare facilities in the state within 6 months of diagnosis. Similar to all other U.S. a...
BMC medical informatics and decision making
Dec 15, 2020
Biological and biomedical ontologies and terminologies are used to organize and store various domain-specific knowledge to provide standardization of terminology usage and to improve interoperability. The growing number of such ontologies and termino...
BMC medical informatics and decision making
Dec 14, 2020
BACKGROUND: Knowledge is often produced from data generated in scientific investigations. An ever-growing number of scientific studies in several domains result into a massive amount of data, from which obtaining new knowledge requires computational ...
BACKGROUND: Creating an ontology for COVID-19 surveillance should help ensure transparency and consistency. Ontologies formalize conceptualizations at either the domain or application level. Application ontologies cross domains and are specified thro...
BACKGROUND: Free-text descriptions in electronic health records (EHRs) can be of interest for clinical research and care optimization. However, free text cannot be readily interpreted by a computer and, therefore, has limited value. Natural Language ...
BACKGROUND: The Genetic and Rare Diseases (GARD) Information Center was established by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to provide freely accessible consumer health information on over 6500 genetic and rare diseases. As the cumulative scientif...
Biomedical question answering (QA) represents a growing concern among industry and academia due to the crucial impact of biomedical information. When mapping and ranking candidate snippet answers within relevant literature, current QA systems typical...
International journal of medical informatics
Nov 7, 2020
BACKGROUND: Researches on Lifestyle medicine (LM) have emerged in recent years to garner wide attention. Prostate cancer (PCa) could be prevented and treated by positive lifestyles, but the association between lifestyles and PCa is always personalize...
Interdisciplinary sciences, computational life sciences
Oct 28, 2020
A substantial body of research is focused to improve the understanding of the relationship between genotypes and phenotypes. Genotype-phenotype studies have shown promise in improving disease diagnosis in humans and identification of specific clinica...
The comprehensive modeling and hierarchical positioning of a new concept in an ontology heavily relies on its set of proper subsumption relationships (IS-As) to other concepts. Identifying a concept's IS-A relationships is a laborious task requiring ...