Studies in health technology and informatics
Jan 1, 2017
This study sought to use ontology-based knowledge to identify patients with rare diseases and to estimate the frequency of those diseases in a large database of radiology reports. Natural language processing methods were applied to 12,377,743 narrari...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Jan 1, 2017
We report on a study of our custom Hootation software for the purposes of assessing its ability to produce clear and accurate natural language phrases from axioms embedded in three biomedical ontologies. Using multiple domain experts and three discre...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Jan 1, 2017
Minimally invasive surgery is a highly complex and technically demanding alternative to open surgery. Surgical procedures based on this method are characterized by small incisions and allow for a fast recovery of the patient. Such techniques are chal...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Jan 1, 2017
The amount of ontologies, which are utilizable for widespread domains, is growing steadily. BioPortal alone, embraces over 500 published ontologies with nearly 8 million classes. In contrast, the vast informative content of these ontologies is only d...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Jan 1, 2017
The formalization of expert knowledge enables a broad spectrum of applications employing ontologies as underlying technology. These include eLearning, Semantic Web and expert systems. However, the manual construction of such ontologies is time-consum...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Jan 1, 2017
The SNIK project converts textbooks about information management in hospitals to a domain ontology that provides a shared vocabulary for institutions to model and integrate processes, data and infrastructure. To accommodate user groups with different...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Jan 1, 2017
Decision Support Systems (DSS) is a powerful tool, for facilitates researchers to choose the correct decision based on their final results. Especially in medical cases where doctors could use these systems, to overcome the problem with the clinical m...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Jan 1, 2017
Much research has been done in the last few decades in clinical research, medicine, life sciences, etc. leading to an exponential increase in the generation of data. Managing this vast information not only requires integration of the data, but also a...
Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.)
Jan 1, 2017
As information available through data repositories constantly grows, the need for automated mechanisms for linking, querying, and sharing data has become a relevant factor both in research and industry. This situation is more evident in research fiel...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Jan 1, 2017
"A solid ontology-based analysis with a rigorous formal mapping for correctness" is one of the ten reasons why the HL7 standard Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) is advertised to be better than other standards for EHR interoperability...