International journal of medical informatics
Nov 8, 2023
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, wh...
Journal of biomedical semantics
Oct 19, 2023
BACKGROUND: Biomedical computational systems benefit from ontologies and their associated mappings. Indeed, aligned ontologies in life sciences play a central role in several semantic-enabled tasks, especially in data exchange. It is crucial to maint...
Journal of biomedical semantics
Sep 28, 2023
BACKGROUND: Ontologies play a key role in the management of medical knowledge because they have the properties to support a wide range of knowledge-intensive tasks. The dynamic nature of knowledge requires frequent changes to the ontologies to keep t...
Journal of applied clinical medical physics
Aug 25, 2023
PURPOSE: Radiation Oncology Learning Health System (RO-LHS) is a promising approach to improve the quality of care by integrating clinical, dosimetry, treatment delivery, research data in real-time. This paper describes a novel set of tools to suppor...
Journal of biomedical semantics
Aug 14, 2023
BACKGROUND: Predicting gene-disease associations typically requires exploring diverse sources of information as well as sophisticated computational approaches. Knowledge graph embeddings can help tackle these challenges by creating representations of...
Journal of biomedical semantics
Aug 7, 2023
MOTIVATION: Phenotypes are observable characteristics of an organism and they can be highly variable. Information about phenotypes is collected in a clinical context to characterize disease, and is also collected in model organisms and stored in mode...
Journal of biomedical semantics
Jul 18, 2023
BACKGROUND: Clinical decision support systems have been widely deployed to guide healthcare decisions on patient diagnosis, treatment choices, and patient management through evidence-based recommendations. These recommendations are typically derived ...
Journal of biomedical informatics
Jul 10, 2023
As applications of the gene ontology (GO) increase rapidly in the biomedical field, quality auditing of it is becoming more and more important. Existing auditing methods are mostly based on rules, observed patterns or hypotheses. In this study, we pr...
Journal of biomedical semantics
Jun 1, 2023
BACKGROUND: The Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable(FAIR) Principles explicitly require the use of FAIR vocabularies, but what precisely constitutes a FAIR vocabulary remains unclear. Being able to define FAIR vocabularies, identify feat...
BMC medical informatics and decision making
May 10, 2023
INTRODUCTION: The Semantic Web community provides a common Resource Description Framework (RDF) that allows representation of resources such that they can be linked. To maximize the potential of linked data - machine-actionable interlinked resources ...