FOIS introduction: Ontology---towards a new synthesis
Proceedings of the international conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems - Volume 2001
Supporting ontological analysis of taxonomic relationships
Data & Knowledge Engineering - ER2000
A reference ontology for biomedical informatics: the foundational model of anatomy
Journal of Biomedical Informatics - Special issue: Unified medical language system
Methods in biomedical ontology
Journal of Biomedical Informatics - Special issue: Biomedical ontologies
Bioinformatics and biological reality
Journal of Biomedical Informatics - Special issue: Biomedical ontologies
From concepts to clinical reality: an essay on the benchmarking of biomedical terminologies
Journal of Biomedical Informatics - Special issue: Biomedical ontologies
Desiderata for domain reference ontologies in biomedicine
Journal of Biomedical Informatics - Special issue: Biomedical ontologies
Granularity, scale and collectivity: when size does and does not matter
Journal of Biomedical Informatics - Special issue: Biomedical ontologies
Logical properties of foundational relations in bio-ontologies
Artificial Intelligence in Medicine
Proceedings of the 2008 conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems: Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference (FOIS 2008)
A formal theory for spatial representation and reasoning in biomedical ontologies
Artificial Intelligence in Medicine
Guest Editorial: Ontologies for clinical and translational research: Introduction
Journal of Biomedical Informatics
Clinical data interoperability based on archetype transformation
Journal of Biomedical Informatics
Ontology alignment for semantic data integration through foundational ontologies
ER'12 Proceedings of the 2012 international conference on Advances in Conceptual Modeling
A conceptual graph based approach for mappings among multiple fuzzy ontologies
Journal of Web Engineering
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In this paper we test the hypothesis that a domain reference ontology of the electrocardiogram (ECG) can be employed in an effective manner to achieve semantic integration between ECG data standards. Several standardization initiatives, namely AHA/MIT-BIH (Physionet), SCP-ECG and HL7 aECG, have led to heterogeneous conceptualizations of the ECG domain. We then argue that a shared anchor, the biomedical reality under scrutiny, can effectively support the semantic integration of these ECG standards into a coherent ECG representation for the sake of a unified Electronic Health Record (EHR) model. Our hypothesis is tested by means of an integration experiment that uses, on the one hand, an ECG Ontology and, on the other hand, elicited conceptual models of the ECG standards. As a conclusion, we attest the hypothesis and also provide an integration table depicting correspondence links between entities in the ECG Ontology and elements in the ECG standards.