The Foundational Model of Anatomy in OWL 2 and its use

Artificial Intelligence in Medicine

Volumn 57, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 119-132

  Golbreich, Christine ^a   Grosjean, Julien ^b   Darmoni, Stefan Jacques ^b  

^a LABORATOIRE DES SCIENCES DU CLIMAT ET DE L ENVIRONNEMENT   (France)

^b ROUEN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

Anatomy; Description Logic; Health portal; Ontology; Semantic Web; Terminology; Web Ontology Language

Indexed keywords

ANATOMY; BIOMEDICAL APPLICATIONS; DESCRIPTION LOGIC; FORMAL DEFINITION; IMPLICIT SEMANTICS; ONTOLOGICAL MODELS; SEMANTIC INTEROPERABILITY; WEB ONTOLOGY LANGUAGE;

DATA DESCRIPTION; ERRORS; HEALTH; INDEXING (OF INFORMATION); MEDICAL APPLICATIONS; QUALITY ASSURANCE; SEMANTIC WEB; TERMINOLOGY; WORLD WIDE WEB;

ONTOLOGY;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DATA BASE; DOCUMENTATION; FOUNDATIONAL MODEL OF ANATOMY; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; LIBRARIAN; MEDICAL TERMINOLOGY; NOMENCLATURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; SEMANTICS; WEB ONTOLOGY LANGUAGE;

DATABASES, FACTUAL; HUMANS; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; INTERNET; LANGUAGE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TERMINOLOGY AS TOPIC; VOCABULARY, CONTROLLED;

EID: 84875110846     PISSN: 09333657     EISSN: 18732860     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.artmed.2012.11.002     Document Type: Article

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