Medical Ontologies

Biomedical Ontologies and Controlled Vocabularies

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A systematically organized computer processable collection of medical terms providing codes, terms, synonyms and definitions used in clinical documentation and reporting. SNOMED CT provides the core general terminology for electronic health …

Unified Medical Language System (UMLS) - United …

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Medical Ontology - an overview | ScienceDirect Topics

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The four upper-level ontologies alongside ChEBI, the Gene Ontology (GO), the Ontology of Biomedical Investigations (OBI) are heavily used within this set of shortlisted …

Biomedical Ontologies and Controlled Vocabularies

https://guides.lib.umich.edu/ontology

When used in computer and information science, the term ontology refers to relationship-based hierarchical descriptions of concepts within a …

What Is an Ontology? - National Institute of General …

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Biomedical researchers face a growing problem in trying to manage their knowledge. As scientists in different disciplines—or even just in different labs—conduct …

Medical Ontology - an overview | ScienceDirect Topics

https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/nursing-and-health-professions/medical-ontology

Ontologies are used for communication between people and organizations by providing a common terminology over a domain. They provide the basis for interoperability between …

Ontology and medical diagnosis - PubMed

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Abstract. Ontology and associated generic tools are appropriate for knowledge modeling and reasoning, but most of the time, disease definitions in existing description logic …

Ontologies in Healthcare: Supporting the Integration of …

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The most significant benefit that ontologies may bring to healthcare systems is their ability to support the indispensable integration of knowledge and data.” Ianace …

What is a medical terminology, taxonomy, …

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Medical ontologies are built by humans but are intended to be used computationally and thus are formally structured. For example, a medical ontology can express that a disease …

(PDF) Medical Ontology: Big Data Big …

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Medical ontologies aim to provide the community with a standard representation and vocabulary for describing and analyzing data so as to derive meaningful …