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.
Studies in health technology and informatics
Jan 1, 2016
Maintenance of biomedical ontologies is difficult. We have developed a pattern-based method for dealing with the problem of identifying missing concepts in the National Cancer Institute thesaurus (NCIt). Specifically, we are mining patterns connectin...
Radiographics : a review publication of the Radiological Society of North America, Inc
Jan 1, 2016
The migration of imaging reports to electronic medical record systems holds great potential in terms of advancing radiology research and practice by leveraging the large volume of data continuously being updated, integrated, and shared. However, ther...
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...
MOTIVATION: Systematically predicting gene (or protein) function based on molecular interaction networks has become an important tool in refining and enhancing the existing annotation catalogs, such as the Gene Ontology (GO) database. However, functi...
BACKGROUND: It is unclear which terms should be included in bibliographic searches for randomized controlled trials (RCTs) of drugs, and identifying relevant drug terms can be extremely laborious. The aim of our analysis was to determine whether a bi...
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
Open access (OA) resources and local libraries often have their own literature databases, especially in the field of biomedicine. We have developed a method of linking a local library to a biomedical OA resource facilitating researchers' full-text ar...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Jan 1, 2015
In this paper, we introduce a set of methodological steps for knowledge acquisition applied to the organization of biomedical information through ontologies. Those steps are tested in a real case involving Human T Cell Lymphotropic Virus (HTLV), whic...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Jan 1, 2015
Computerisation of quality indicators for the English National Health Service currently relies primarily on queries and clinical coding, with little use of ontologies. We created a searchable ontology for a diverse set of healthcare quality indicator...
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