Towards an ontology for sharing medical images and regions of interest in neuroimaging

Journal of Biomedical Informatics

Volumn 41, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 766-778

  Temal, Lynda ^a,b   Dojat, Michel ^c   Kassel, Gilles ^d   Gibaud, Bernard ^a,b  

^a INRIA   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE RENNES 1   (France)

^c GRENOBLE INSTITUT DES NEUROSCIENCES   (France)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE PICARDIE JULES VERNE   (France)

Author keywords

Biomedical ontologies; Data integration; Data sharing; Mediation system; Medical imaging; Neuroscience; Semantic annotation

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE REUSABILITY; INFORMATION THEORY; RESEARCH; SEMANTIC WEB; SEMANTICS;

BIOMEDICAL ONTOLOGIES; COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH; COMPUTER PROGRAMS; DATA INTEGRATION; DATA SHARING; DOMAIN ONTOLOGIES; FORMAL ONTOLOGY; IMAGE CONTENTS; IMAGE DATA; MEDIATION SYSTEM; MEDICAL IMAGING; MULTI-COMPONENTS; MULTI-LAYERED; NEURO-IMAGING; NEUROSCIENCE; REGIONS OF INTEREST; SEMANTIC ANNOTATION; SEMANTIC MODELING; SEMANTIC WEB TECHNOLOGIES;

ONTOLOGY;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY; METHODOLOGY; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTIC DIFFERENTIAL METHOD; SEMANTICS; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; WEB BROWSER;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; INTERNET; MODELS, ORGANIZATIONAL; NEUROSCIENCES; PARKINSON DISEASE; SYSTEMS INTEGRATION; TELEMEDICINE; VOCABULARY, CONTROLLED;

EID: 52949097584     PISSN: 15320464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbi.2008.03.002     Document Type: Article

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