Studies in health technology and informatics
Jan 1, 2015
We present in this poster an extension of the ServO ontology server system, which adopts a decentralized Peer-To-Peer approach for managing multiple heterogeneous knowledge organization systems. It relies on the use of the JXTA protocol coupled with ...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Jan 1, 2015
The recommendation of exercise plans requires several variables to be considered (e.g., patient's conditions and preferences) and are normally complex to analyze. To facilitate this analysis we proposed the creation of an ontology to assist professio...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Jan 1, 2015
The goal of our study is to establish methodological guidelines for the formulation of definitions in biomedical ontologies thatare not so common in the field of Library & Information Science.
Studies in health technology and informatics
Jan 1, 2015
There remain significant difficulties selecting probable candidate drugs from existing databases. We describe an ontology-oriented approach to represent the nexus between genes, drugs, phenotypes, symptoms, and diseases from multiple information sour...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Jan 1, 2015
Classifying the defects occurring at the cervical spine provides the basis for surgical treatment planning and therapy recommendation. This process requires evidence from patient records. Further, the degree of a defect needs to be encoded in a stand...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Jan 1, 2015
To translate the 11th edition of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-11) into French, we proposed a lexical approach using Natural Language Processing techniques. This method relies on the 56 biomedical terminologies and ontologies incl...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Jan 1, 2015
Assessment of vital signs is an essential part of surveillance of critically ill patients to detect condition changes and clinical deterioration. While most modern electronic medical records allow for vitals to be recorded in a structured format, the...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Jan 1, 2015
Dependence relations among disease and risk factors are a key ingredient in risk modeling and decision support models. Currently such information is either provided by experts (costly and time consuming) or extracted from data (if available). The pub...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Jan 1, 2015
Natural language processing (NLP) has been designed to convert narrative text into structured data. Although some general NLP architectures have been developed, a task-specific NLP framework to facilitate the effective use of data is still a challeng...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Jan 1, 2015
The emerging penetration of Health IT in Latin America (especially in Brazil) has exacerbated the ever-increasing amount of Electronic Health Record (EHR) clinical free text documents.This imposes a workflow efficiency challenge on clinicians who nee...