Bouamrane, M.-M., Rector, A. and Hurrell, M. (2009) Semi-automatic generation of a patient preoperative knowledge-base from a legacy clinical database. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 5871, pp. 1224-1237. (doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-05151-7_34)
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Abstract
We discuss our practical experience of automating the process of migrating a clinical database with a weak underlying information model towards a high level representation of a patient medical history information in the Web Ontology Language (OWL). The purpose of this migration is to enable sophisticated clinical decision support functionalities based on semantic-web technologies, i.e. reasoning on a clinical ontology. We discuss the research and practical motivation behind this process, including improved interoperability and additional classification functionalities. We propose a methodology to optimise the efficiency of this process and provide practical implementation examples.
Item Type: | Articles |
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Additional Information: | Presented at the Confederated International Conferences, CoopIS, DOA, IS, and ODBASE 2009: On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems: Part II, Vilamoura, Portugal, 3-5 Nov 2009 |
Keywords: | Ontology and databases, reverse engineering, clinical decision support systems, preoperative assessment |
Status: | Published |
Refereed: | Yes |
Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID: | Bouamrane, Dr Matt-Mouley |
Authors: | Bouamrane, M.-M., Rector, A., and Hurrell, M. |
Subjects: | Q Science > QA Mathematics > QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine > RA0421 Public health. Hygiene. Preventive Medicine |
College/School: | College of Medical Veterinary and Life Sciences > School of Health & Wellbeing > General Practice and Primary Care |
Journal Name: | Lecture Notes in Computer Science |
Publisher: | Springer |
ISSN: | 0302-9743 |
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