{"title":"Proposition of an Ontology of Diseases and Their Signs from Medical Ontologies Integration","authors":"Adama Sow, Abdoulaye Guiss\u00b4e, Oumar Niang","volume":138,"journal":"International Journal of Computer and Information Engineering","pagesStart":395,"pagesEnd":401,"ISSN":"1307-6892","URL":"https:\/\/publications.waset.org\/pdf\/10009069","abstract":"To assist medical diagnosis, we propose a federation<br \/>\r\nof several existing and open medical ontologies and terminologies.<br \/>\r\nThe goal is to merge the strengths of all these resources to provide<br \/>\r\nclinicians the access to a variety of shared knowledges that can<br \/>\r\nfacilitate identification and association of human diseases and all of<br \/>\r\ntheir available characteristic signs such as symptoms and clinical<br \/>\r\nsigns. This work results to an integration model loaded from target<br \/>\r\nknown ontologies of the bioportal platform such as DOID, MESH,<br \/>\r\nand SNOMED for diseases selection, SYMP, and CSSO for all<br \/>\r\nexisting signs.","references":"[1] Charlet J, Declerck G., Dhombres F., Gayet P., Miroux P., Vandenbussche\r\nP.: Construire une ontologie m\u00b4edicale pour la recherche d\u2019information:\r\nprobl\u00b4ematiques terminologiques et de mod\u00b4elisation. IC 2012.\r\n[2] Anbarasi M. S., Naveen P., Selvaganapathi S., Mohamed Nowsath Ali\r\nI., Ontology Based Medical Diagnosis Decision Support System, In\r\nInternational Journal of Engineering Research and Technology (IJERT),\r\n2013.\r\n[3] Robert Hoehndorf, Michel Dumontier and Georgios V. Gkoutos,\r\nEvaluation of research in biomedical ontologies, In Bioinformatics. vol\r\n14. No 6. 696-712, 2012.\r\n[4] Jos\u00b4e A., Reye S-Ortiz, Ana L. Jimenez, Jaime Cater, Cesar A.\r\nMalend\u00b4es, Ontology-based Knowledge Representation for Supporting\r\nMedical Decisions, Recherche in Computer Science, 2013.\r\n[5] Mohammed, Osama and Benlamri, Rachid and Fong, Simon, Building\r\na Diseases Symptoms Ontology for Medical Diagnosis: An Integrative\r\nApproach, D\u00b4ecembre 2012, IEEE International Conference on Future\r\nGeneration Commnication Technology (FGCT 2012).\r\n[6] Hoehndorf, Robert and Schofield, Paul N. and Gkoutos, Georgios V., The\r\nrole of ontologies in biological and biomedical research: a functional\r\nperspective, In Briefings in Bioinformatics Journal, 2015\r\n[7] Alexander P. Cox, Patrick L. Ray, Mark Jensen, Alexander D. Diehl,\r\nDefining \u2019sign\u2019 and \u2019symptom\u2019, IWOOD 2014 Workshop, In ICBO,\r\nHouston, TX, USA, October 6-7, 2014.\r\n[8] Lynn, Schriml and Arze, Cesar and al., Disease Ontology: A backbone\r\nfor disease semantic integration, Nucleic acids research, 2011.\r\n[9] Whetzel PL, Noy NF, Shah NH, Alexander PR, al., BioPortal:\r\nenhanced functionality via new Web services from the National Center\r\nfor Biomedical Ontology to access and use ontologies in software\r\napplications, Nucleic Acids Res. 2011 Jul, 39(Web Server issue):W541-5,\r\nEpub 2011 Jun 14.\r\n[10] Salvadores M, Horridge M, Alexander PR, Fergerson RW, Musen\r\nMA, and Noy NF, Using SPARQL to Query BioPortal Ontologies and\r\nMetadata, International Semantic Web Conference (Boston US) LNCS\r\n7650, pp 180195, 2012.\r\n[11] Cornet, Ronald and De Keize, Nicolette, Forty years of SNOMED: a\r\nliterature review, In First European Conference on SNOMED CT, 1-3\r\nOctober 2006, Copenhagen, Denmark.\r\n[12] Smith, Barry and Ashburner, Michael and al., The OBO Foundry:\r\ncoordinated evolution of ontologies to support biomedical data\r\nintegration, In Nature Biotechnology, 2007, Volume 25.\r\n[13] Olivier Bodenreider, The Unified Medical Language System (UMLS):\r\nintegrating biomedical terminology, in Nucleic Acids Research, 2004, Vol.\r\n32.\r\n[14] Karen Patrias and Dan Wendling, Citing Medicine, 2nd edition, In\r\nNational Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health Bethesda\r\n(MD): National Library of Medicine (US); 2007.","publisher":"World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology","index":"Open Science Index 138, 2018"}