Issues in the design of medical ontologies used for knowledge sharing

被引：6

作者：

Burgun A. ^{[1
]}

Botti G. ^{[2
]}

Le Beux P. ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] Laboratoire d'Informatique Medicale, CHU Pontchaillou F-35033 Rennes C., France

[2] Service de l'Information Medicale, Hopital de la Timone Adultes, F-13385 Marseille Cedex5, France

来源：

Journal of Medical Systems | 2001年 / 25卷 / 2期

关键词：

domain ontology; knowledge representation; medicine; ontology design; semantics;

D O I：

10.1023/A:1005668530110

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摘要：

Recent work in Medical Informatics is exploring the development and the use of formal ontologies as a way of specifying content-specific agreements for the sharing and reuse of knowledge among several computer systems. We describe the role of ontologies in supporting knowledge sharing activities in medicine Principles for the design of ontologies have been proposed, mainly in other domains: these principles include parsimony, clarity, representation of categories versus terms, and coherence. We analyze how and why these principles can or cannot be applied from case studies from medical systems. Regarding the fact that most of medical concepts are empirical, selected design decisions are discussed. An alternative representation choice consists in mapping principled general core ontologies and domain ontologies.

引用

页码：95 / 108

页数：13

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