AN ONTOLOGY FOR SUPPORTING CLINICAL RESEARCH ON CERVICAL CANCER

Manolis Falelakis, Christos Maramis, Irini Lekka, Pericles A. Mitkas, Anastasios Delopoulos

2009

Abstract

This work presents an ontology for cervical cancer that is positioned in the center of a research system for conducting association studies. The ontology aims at providing a unified "language" for various heterogeneous medical repositories. To this end, it contains both generic patient-management and domain-specific concepts, as well as proper unification rules. The inference scheme adopted is coupled with a procedural programming layer in order to comply with the design requirements.

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Falelakis M., Maramis C., Lekka I., A. Mitkas P. and Delopoulos A. (2009). AN ONTOLOGY FOR SUPPORTING CLINICAL RESEARCH ON CERVICAL CANCER . In Proceedings of the International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Ontology Development - Volume 1: KEOD, (IC3K 2009) ISBN 978-989-674-012-2, pages 103-108. DOI: 10.5220/0002265701030108


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@conference{keod09,
author={Manolis Falelakis and Christos Maramis and Irini Lekka and Pericles A. Mitkas and Anastasios Delopoulos},
title={AN ONTOLOGY FOR SUPPORTING CLINICAL RESEARCH ON CERVICAL CANCER},
booktitle={Proceedings of the International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Ontology Development - Volume 1: KEOD, (IC3K 2009)},
year={2009},
pages={103-108},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002265701030108},
isbn={978-989-674-012-2},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Ontology Development - Volume 1: KEOD, (IC3K 2009)
TI - AN ONTOLOGY FOR SUPPORTING CLINICAL RESEARCH ON CERVICAL CANCER
SN - 978-989-674-012-2
AU - Falelakis M.
AU - Maramis C.
AU - Lekka I.
AU - A. Mitkas P.
AU - Delopoulos A.
PY - 2009
SP - 103
EP - 108
DO - 10.5220/0002265701030108