Healthcare Ontology
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A Healthcare Ontology is a healthcare knowledge base that is a domain-specific ontology for healthcare concepts and healthcare relations.
- AKA: Medical Ontology.
- See: Biomedical Ontology, Legal Ontology.
References
2023
- (Tauqeer et al., 2023) ⇒ Amar Tauqeer, Ismaheel Hammid, Sareh Aghaei, Parvaneh Parvin, Elbrich M. Postma, and Anna Fensel. (2023). “Smell and Taste Disorders Knowledge Graph: Answering Questions Using Health Data.” Expert Systems with Applications.
- QUOTE: ... A diverse range of [Healthcare Ontology|ontologi]]es has been developed to semantically represent healthcare concepts, e.g., BioPortal Biomedical Ontology (Salvadores et al., 2012), General Medical Science (Scheuermann, Ceusters, & Smith, 2009), Human Disease Ontology (Genome Sciences, 2022), Human Phenotype Ontology (Köhler et al., 2020), Gene ontology (Ashburner et al., 2000), and Upper-Level Ontology for the Biomedical Domain McCray (2003). Generally, ontology enhances data quality in two ways: on the one hand, by improving metadata and provenance that allows users to make better sense of the data, and on the other hand, by giving a common understanding of information and making explicit domain assumptions. ...