Ontology Engineering for the Semantic Annotation of Medical Data

Although a wide range of medical ontologies has already been deployed in the last decade, most of them follow design principles different to those required by Semantic Web applications and consequently can not be directly integrated and reused. We describe a method to construct a Semantic Web-based medical ontology, which is used for the semantic annotation of medical reports, and evaluate the engineering process against a reuse-oriented approach.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2005
• Where: DEXAW
• Authors: Elena Paslaru Bontas, David Schlangen, Sonja Niepage
• Keywords: Database, DEXAW 2005, Medical Ontologies, Semantic Web Applications, Web-based Medical Ontology