AIMC Topic: Terminology as Topic

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Toward a patient safety upper level ontology.

Studies in health technology and informatics
Patient Safety (PS) standardization is the key to improve interoperability and expand international share of incident reporting system knowledge. By aligning the Patient Safety Categorial Structure (PS-CAST) to the Basic Formal Ontology version 2 (BF...

Biomarkers in the ontology for general medical science.

Studies in health technology and informatics
A great deal of recent work has been devoted to the topic of biomarkers as aids to diagnosis, prognosis and treatment evaluation. Basing our work on the Ontology for General Medical Science (OGMS) and on the specifications provided by the Institute o...

Exploring brand-name drug mentions on Twitter for pharmacovigilance.

Studies in health technology and informatics
Twitter has been proposed by several studies as a means to track public health trends such as influenza and Ebola outbreaks by analyzing user messages in order to measure different population features and interests. In this work we analyze the number...

A connecting system for cardiological lexicons.

Studies in health technology and informatics
The purpose of this paper is to present the approach and the development of a software application ("lexicons connecting" system) to correlate effectively and unambiguously the correspondence between the specialist medical vocabulary and the familiar...

Incidence Rate of Canonical vs. Derived Medical Terminology in Natural Language.

Studies in health technology and informatics
Medical terminology appears in the natural language in multiple forms: canonical, derived or inflected form. This research presents an analysis of the form in which medical terminology appears in Romanian and English language. The sources of medical ...