Bioinformatics (Oxford, England)
Sep 15, 2017
MOTIVATION: The NCBI's Sequence Read Archive (SRA) promises great biological insight if one could analyze the data in the aggregate; however, the data remain largely underutilized, in part, due to the poor structure of the metadata associated with ea...
Bioinformatics (Oxford, England)
Jul 15, 2017
MOTIVATION: The amount of information available in textual format is rapidly increasing in the biomedical domain. Therefore, natural language processing (NLP) applications are becoming increasingly important to facilitate the retrieval and analysis o...
Nature genetics
May 26, 2017
The value of broadening searches for data across multiple repositories has been identified by the biomedical research community. As part of the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) Big Data to Knowledge initiative, we work with an international com...
Bioinformatics (Oxford, England)
Apr 1, 2017
SUMMARY: Ontologies are widely used constructs for encoding and analyzing biomedical data, but the absence of simple and consistent tools has made exploratory and systematic analysis of such data unnecessarily difficult. Here we present three package...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Jan 1, 2017
The purpose of this research is to make the medical report generation process more practical, fast and reliable, both for the health professional and for the patient. We created an ontology and modeling of a structured report (SR) Standard DICOM SR.
Studies in health technology and informatics
Jan 1, 2017
To handle differences in affiliation names submitted with biomedical journal articles, we build an affiliation knowledge base named Authority File for Affiliations (AFA) based on ontology principles. There are currently 113,700 affiliation concepts w...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Jan 1, 2017
Maintenance and use of a large ontology, consisting of thousands of knowledge assertions, are hampered by its scope and complexity. It is important to provide tools for summarization of ontology content in order to facilitate user "big picture" compr...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Jan 1, 2017
In this research we aim to demonstrate that an ontology-based system can categorize potential drug-drug interaction (PDDI) evidence items into complex types based on a small set of simple questions. Such a method could increase the transparency and r...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Jan 1, 2017
Psychiatry aims at detecting symptoms, providing diagnoses and treating mental disorders. We developed ONTOPSYCHIA, an ontology for psychiatry in three modules: social and environmental factors of mental disorders, mental disorders, and treatments. T...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Jan 1, 2017
UNLABELLED: Research Purpose: establish health management ontology for analysis of health statistic data. Proposed Methods: this paper established health management ontology based on the analysis of the concepts in China Health Statistics Yearbook, a...