Supporting the Development of Medical Ontologies

Authors:
David Corsar;Laura Moss;Derek Sleeman;Malcolm Sim
Affiliations:
Department of Computing Science, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK;Department of Computing Science, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK;Department of Computing Science, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK and Section of Anaesthesia, Glasgow Royal Infirmary, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK;Section of Anaesthesia, Glasgow Royal Infirmary, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK
Venue:
Proceedings of the 2009 conference on Formal Ontologies Meet Industry
Year:
2009

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Abstract

Ontologies are widely used in the biomedical community, which has built standard reference ontologies for various aspects of medicine. These projects have produced broad descriptions of the medical domain, resulting in large, complex ontologies which can be difficult to reuse as part of a focused application. We describe four ontologies which we developed to support intelligent reasoning about a particular medical sub-domain. We also describe how concepts in these ontologies can be aligned with standard reference ontologies to promote interoperability.