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Ontological Modeling of Interoperable Abnormal States

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Abstract

Exchanging huge volumes of data is a common concern in various fields. One issue has been the difficulty of cross-domain sharing of knowledge because of its highly heterogeneous nature. We constructed an ontological model of abnormal states from the generic to domain-specific level. We propose a unified form to describe an abnormal state as a "property", and then divide it into an "attribute" and a "value" in a qualitative form. This approach promotes interoperability and flexibility of quantitative raw data, qualitative information, and generic/abstract knowledge. By developing an is-a hierarchal tree and combining causal chains of diseases, 17,000 abnormal states from 6000 diseases can be captured as generic causal relations and are reusable across 12 medical departments.

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  • ontology
  • abnormal state
  • property
  • disease
  • interoperability

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  1. The Institute of Scientific and Industrial Research, Osaka University, 8-1 Mihogaoka, Ibaraki, Osaka, 567-0047, Japan

    Yuki Yamagata, Hiroko Kou, Kouji Kozaki & Riichiro Mizoguchi

  2. Research Center for Service Science School of Knowledge Science, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, 1-1 Asahidai, Nomi, Ishikawa, 923-1292, Japan

    Riichiro Mizoguchi

  3. Department of Medical Informatics, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 113-0033, Japan

    Takeshi Imai & Kazuhiko Ohe

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  1. National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo, Japan

    Hideaki Takeda

  2. Nanjing University, China

    Yuzhong Qu

  3. Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Ishikawa, Japan

    Riichiro Mizoguchi

  4. Osaka University, Japan

    Yoshinobu Kitamura

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Yamagata, Y., Kou, H., Kozaki, K., Mizoguchi, R., Imai, T., Ohe, K. (2013). Ontological Modeling of Interoperable Abnormal States. In: Takeda, H., Qu, Y., Mizoguchi, R., Kitamura, Y. (eds) Semantic Technology. JIST 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7774. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-37996-3_3

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