Journal of biomedical semantics
Dec 11, 2023
BACKGROUND: The FAIR principles recommend the use of controlled vocabularies, such as ontologies, to define data and metadata concepts. Ontologies are currently modelled following different approaches, sometimes describing conflicting definitions of ...
BMC medical informatics and decision making
Nov 28, 2023
BACKGROUNDS: The size of medical strategies is expected to grow in conjunction with the expansion of modern diseases' complexity. When a strategy includes more than ten statements, its manual management becomes very challenging, and in some cases, im...
Journal of biomedical informatics
Nov 18, 2023
BACKGROUND: Content coverage of patient safety ontology and classification systems should be evaluated to provide a guide for users to select appropriate ones for specific applications. In this review, we identified and compare content coverage of pa...
Med (New York, N.Y.)
Nov 13, 2023
BACKGROUND: Navigating the clinical literature to determine the optimal clinical management for rare diseases presents significant challenges. We introduce the Medical Action Ontology (MAxO), an ontology specifically designed to organize medical proc...
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...