DEVELOPMENT OF FUNDAMENTAL TECHNOLOGIES FOR BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF CLINICAL MEDICAL ONTOLOGIES

Hiroko Kou, Mamoru Ohta, Jun Zhou, Kouji Kozaki, Riichiro Mizoguchi, Takeshi Imai, Kazuhiko Ohe

2010

Abstract

We have been building a Japanese medical ontology that provides an intelligent infrastructure for systematization and synthetic understanding of medical knowledge on a large scale. The objectives of our research include building a medical ontology and developing application systems based on it. We identified a few common fundamental technologies for understanding the medical ontology and implemented them. The main features of these technologies are summarized as the following two functions: dynamically generating is-a hierarchy according to the user’s interest, and providing natural language explanations. We built a prototype medical information service system using these fundamental technologies. We conducted an informal evaluation in a workshop and received favorable comments from medical experts.

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Kou H., Ohta M., Zhou J., Kozaki K., Mizoguchi R., Imai T. and Ohe K. (2010). DEVELOPMENT OF FUNDAMENTAL TECHNOLOGIES FOR BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF CLINICAL MEDICAL ONTOLOGIES . In Proceedings of the International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Ontology Development - Volume 1: KEOD, (IC3K 2010) ISBN 978-989-8425-29-4, pages 235-240. DOI: 10.5220/0003089102350240


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@conference{keod10,
author={Hiroko Kou and Mamoru Ohta and Jun Zhou and Kouji Kozaki and Riichiro Mizoguchi and Takeshi Imai and Kazuhiko Ohe},
title={DEVELOPMENT OF FUNDAMENTAL TECHNOLOGIES FOR BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF CLINICAL MEDICAL ONTOLOGIES},
booktitle={Proceedings of the International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Ontology Development - Volume 1: KEOD, (IC3K 2010)},
year={2010},
pages={235-240},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0003089102350240},
isbn={978-989-8425-29-4},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Ontology Development - Volume 1: KEOD, (IC3K 2010)
TI - DEVELOPMENT OF FUNDAMENTAL TECHNOLOGIES FOR BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF CLINICAL MEDICAL ONTOLOGIES
SN - 978-989-8425-29-4
AU - Kou H.
AU - Ohta M.
AU - Zhou J.
AU - Kozaki K.
AU - Mizoguchi R.
AU - Imai T.
AU - Ohe K.
PY - 2010
SP - 235
EP - 240
DO - 10.5220/0003089102350240