BMC medical informatics and decision making
Aug 30, 2024
Ontologies and terminologies serve as the backbone of knowledge representation in biomedical domains, facilitating data integration, interoperability, and semantic understanding across diverse applications. However, the quality assurance and enrichme...
Journal of biomedical semantics
Aug 30, 2024
Automatic disease progression prediction models require large amounts of training data, which are seldom available, especially when it comes to rare diseases. A possible solution is to integrate data from different medical centres. Nevertheless, vari...
Journal of biomedical semantics
Aug 20, 2024
BACKGROUND: Within the Open Biological and Biomedical Ontology (OBO) Foundry, many ontologies represent the execution of a plan specification as a process in which a realizable entity that concretizes the plan specification, a "realizable concretizat...
Journal of biomedical semantics
Aug 10, 2024
BACKGROUND: Vaccines have revolutionized public health by providing protection against infectious diseases. They stimulate the immune system and generate memory cells to defend against targeted diseases. Clinical trials evaluate vaccine performance, ...
BMC medical informatics and decision making
Jul 31, 2024
BACKGROUND: Intraoperative neurophysiological monitoring (IOM) plays a pivotal role in enhancing patient safety during neurosurgical procedures. This vital technique involves the continuous measurement of evoked potentials to provide early warnings a...
IEEE journal of biomedical and health informatics
Jul 2, 2024
Despite the vast potential for insights and value present in Electronic Health Records (EHRs), it is challenging to fully leverage all the available information, particularly that contained in the free-text data written by clinicians describing the h...
Journal of biomedical semantics
Jun 19, 2024
BACKGROUND: The exploration of cancer vaccines has yielded a multitude of studies, resulting in a diverse collection of information. The heterogeneity of cancer vaccine data significantly impedes effective integration and analysis. While CanVaxKB ser...
Journal of imaging informatics in medicine
Jun 10, 2024
Previously, the lack of a standard body part ontology has been identified as a critical deficiency needed to enable enterprise imaging. This whitepaper aims to provide a comprehensive assessment of anatomical ontologies with the aim of facilitating e...
History and philosophy of the life sciences
May 30, 2024
In their anthology Everything Flows: Towards a Processual Philosophy of Biology, Daniel J. Nicholson and John Dupré argue that modern theories of biology imply that the fundamental structure of reality is processual at its core. In the present work, ...
BMC medical informatics and decision making
May 22, 2024
BACKGROUND: One significant challenge in addressing the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic is to grasp a comprehensive picture of its infectious mechanisms. We urgently need a consistent framework to capture the intricacies of its complicat...