Data Mining of Association Rules and the Process of Knowledge Discovery in Databases
Industrial Conference on Data Mining: Advances in Data Mining, Applications in E-Commerce, Medicine, and Knowledge Management
A reference ontology for biomedical informatics: the foundational model of anatomy
Journal of Biomedical Informatics - Special issue: Unified medical language system
Bioinformatics and biological reality
Journal of Biomedical Informatics - Special issue: Biomedical ontologies
Strategies for referent tracking in electronic health records
Journal of Biomedical Informatics - Special issue: Biomedical ontologies
Journal of Biomedical Informatics - Special issue: Biomedical ontologies
Journal of Biomedical Informatics - Special issue: Biomedical ontologies
Web Semantics: Science, Services and Agents on the World Wide Web
A prototype symbolic model of canonical functional neuroanatomy of the motor system
Journal of Biomedical Informatics
Towards an ontology for sharing medical images and regions of interest in neuroimaging
Journal of Biomedical Informatics
A model-driven approach for representing clinical archetypes for Semantic Web environments
Journal of Biomedical Informatics
Applying evolutionary terminology auditing to the Gene Ontology
Journal of Biomedical Informatics
Introducing Realist Ontology for the Representation of Adverse Events
Proceedings of the 2008 conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems: Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference (FOIS 2008)
Towards A Realism-Based Metric for Quality Assurance in Ontology Matching
Proceedings of the 2006 conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems: Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference (FOIS 2006)
Realism for scientific ontologies
Proceedings of the 2010 conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems: Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference (FOIS 2010)
Ontological realism: Methodology or misdirection?
Applied Ontology
An approach for the semantic interoperability of ISO EN 13606 and OpenEHR archetypes
Journal of Biomedical Informatics
Journal of Biomedical Informatics
Using an ECG reference ontology for semantic interoperability of ECG data
Journal of Biomedical Informatics
Desiderata for ontologies to be used in semantic annotation of biomedical documents
Journal of Biomedical Informatics
A SNOMED supported ontological vector model for subclinical disorder detection using EHR similarity
Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence
A realism-based analysis of the OpenEHR entry model
Proceedings of the first international workshop on Managing interoperability and complexity in health systems
Using the ResearchEHR platform to facilitate the practical application of the EHR standards
Journal of Biomedical Informatics
Ontological realism: Methodology or misdirection?
Applied Ontology
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It is only by fixing on agreed meanings of terms in biomedical terminologies that we will be in a position to achieve that accumulation and integration of knowledge that is indispensable to progress at the frontiers of biomedicine. Standardly, the goal of fixing meanings is seen as being realized through the alignment of terms on what are called 'concepts.' Part I addresses three versions of the concept-based approach--by Cimino, by Wüster, and by Campbell and associates--and surveys some of the problems to which they give rise, all of which have to do with a failure to anchor the terms in terminologies to corresponding referents in reality. Part II outlines a new, realist solution to this anchorage problem, which sees terminology construction as being motivated by the goal of alignment not on concepts but on the universals (kinds, types) in reality and thereby also on the corresponding instances (individuals, tokens). We outline the realist approach and show how on its basis we can provide a benchmark of correctness for terminologies which will at the same time allow a new type of integration of terminologies and electronic health records. We conclude by outlining ways in which the framework thus defined might be exploited for purposes of diagnostic decision-support.