Studies in health technology and informatics
Jan 1, 2016
We continue our previous work of creating and improving a framework for detecting the differences between hierarchical terminologies and suggesting ways to connect them, which is implemented in an automated tool.
Bundesgesundheitsblatt, Gesundheitsforschung, Gesundheitsschutz
Aug 1, 2015
A variety of rich terminology systems, such as thesauri, classifications, nomenclatures and ontologies support information and knowledge processing in health care and biomedical research. Nevertheless, human language, manifested as individually writt...
PURPOSE: In 1994, Japanese Society of Radiological Technology (JSRT) constructed the lexicon in the field of radiologic technology. However, recently, latest lexicon is not updated yet. The purpose of this article is to compare the terminologies in c...
IEEE/ACM transactions on computational biology and bioinformatics
Jan 1, 2015
Relative terms often appear together in the literature. Methods have been presented for weighting relativity of pairwise terms by their co-occurring literature and inferring new relationship. Terms in the literature are also in the directed acyclic g...
International journal of data mining and bioinformatics
Jan 1, 2015
The scarcity of large labelled datasets comprising clinical text that can be exploited within the paradigm of supervised machine learning creates barriers for the secondary use of data from electronic health records. It is therefore important to deve...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Jan 1, 2015
We aim to ease the process of authoring accessible graphics as well as taking a first step towards the long-term goal of allowing blind persons to access graphics autonomously. We are developing and experimenting with a hierarchical set of knowledge ...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Jan 1, 2015
Different groups of audiences in health care: health professionals and health consumers, each have different information needs. Health monographs targeting different audiences are created by leveraging readers' background knowledge. The NCI's Physici...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Jan 1, 2015
The lack of a standards-based information model has been recognized as a major barrier for representing computable diagnostic criteria. In this paper we describe our efforts in examining the feasibility of the Quality Data Model (QDM)-developed by th...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Jan 1, 2015
BACKGROUND: Prior work has established that fuzzy logic is prevalent in clinical practice guidelines and that Arden Syntax is suitable for representing clinical quality measures (CQMs). Approved since then, Arden Syntax v2.9 (2012) has formal constru...
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...