MEDICAL KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION WITHIN HEARTFAID PLATFORM

Dragan Gamberger, Marin Prcela, Alan Jović, Tomislav Šmuc, Ganfranco Parati, Mariaconsuelo Valentini, Kalina Kawecka-Jaszcz, Katarzyna Styczkiewicz, Andrzej Kononowicz, Antonio Candelieri, Domenico Conforti, Rosita Guido

2008

Abstract

The paper presents the results of the development of the knowledge base for the HEARTFAID platform. The means and methods used to collect, systematize and formalize medical knowledge, as well as to test the developed knowledge representation are described. The descriptive part of the knowledge base is realized as an ontology which conceptualizes the heart failure medical domain. The procedural part of the knowledge base is realized through sets of production rules. The procedural knowledge covers the tasks of heart failure diagnosis, severity assessment, treatment process, medication prescription and dosage, medication contraindications, prognosis estimation, and acute decompensation detection. Finally, medical plans are used to present medical actionable knowledge. Currently they are used only to systemize procedural knowledge development process but they present a challenge for the future work in the field of medical knowledge representation.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Gamberger D., Prcela M., Jović A., Šmuc T., Parati G., Valentini M., Styczkiewicz K., Kawecka-Jaszcz K., Kononowicz A., Candelieri A., Conforti D. and Guido R. (2008). MEDICAL KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION WITHIN HEARTFAID PLATFORM . In Proceedings of the First International Conference on Health Informatics - Volume 1: Special Session on Knowledge Discovery and Decision Support Systems in Health Information Systems, (BIOSTEC 2008) ISBN 978-989-8111-16-6, pages 307-314. DOI: 10.5220/0001045203070314

in Bibtex Style

@conference{special session on knowledge discovery and decision support systems in health information systems08,
author={Dragan Gamberger and Marin Prcela and Alan Jović and Tomislav Šmuc and Ganfranco Parati and Mariaconsuelo Valentini and Katarzyna Styczkiewicz and Kalina Kawecka-Jaszcz and Andrzej Kononowicz and Antonio Candelieri and Domenico Conforti and Rosita Guido},
title={MEDICAL KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION WITHIN HEARTFAID PLATFORM},
booktitle={Proceedings of the First International Conference on Health Informatics - Volume 1: Special Session on Knowledge Discovery and Decision Support Systems in Health Information Systems, (BIOSTEC 2008)},
year={2008},
pages={307-314},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0001045203070314},
isbn={978-989-8111-16-6},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the First International Conference on Health Informatics - Volume 1: Special Session on Knowledge Discovery and Decision Support Systems in Health Information Systems, (BIOSTEC 2008)
TI - MEDICAL KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION WITHIN HEARTFAID PLATFORM
SN - 978-989-8111-16-6
AU - Gamberger D.
AU - Prcela M.
AU - Jović A.
AU - Šmuc T.
AU - Parati G.
AU - Valentini M.
AU - Styczkiewicz K.
AU - Kawecka-Jaszcz K.
AU - Kononowicz A.
AU - Candelieri A.
AU - Conforti D.
AU - Guido R.
PY - 2008
SP - 307
EP - 314
DO - 10.5220/0001045203070314