Semi-automatic Generation of a Patient Preoperative Knowledge-Base from a Legacy Clinical Database

Citation

Bouamrane M, Rector A & Hurrell M (2009) Semi-automatic Generation of a Patient Preoperative Knowledge-Base from a Legacy Clinical Database. In: Meersman R, Dillon T & Herrero P (eds.) 'On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems conference: OTM 2009.. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), 5871. Confederated International Conferences, CoopIS, DOA, IS, and ODBASE 2009, Vilamoura, Portugal, 01.11.2009-06.11.2009. Berlin: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, pp. 1224-1237. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-05151-7_34

Abstract
We discuss our practical experience of automating the process of migrating a clinical database with a weak underlying information model towards a high level representation of a patient medical history information in the Web Ontology Language (OWL). The purpose of this migration is to enable sophisticated clinical decision support functionalities based on semantic-web technologies, i.e. reasoning on a clinical ontology. We discuss the research and practical motivation behind this process, including improved interoperability and additional classification functionalities. We propose a methodology to optimise the efficiency of this process and provide practical implementation examples.

Keywords
Knowledge-Base Systems; Patient Medical History; Semi-automatic patient medical profile generation; OWL Ontologies