Ontology-driven cardiovascular decision support system

Citation

Farooq K, Hussain A, Leslie S, Eckl C & Slack W (2011) Ontology-driven cardiovascular decision support system. In: 2011 5th International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare and Workshops, PervasiveHealth 2011. 2011 5th International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare (PervasiveHealth), Dublin, Ireland, 23.05.2011-26.05.2011. Piscataway, NJ: IEEE, pp. 283-286. http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/freeabs_all.jsp?arnumber=6038814&abstractAccess=no&userType=inst

Abstract
We discuss work-in-progress and propose an ontology driven framework for the development of a clinical expert system for chest pain risk assessment. The framework has the following key components: adaptive questionnaire, patient medical history, risk assessment and decision support. We intend to incorporate a range of chest pain assessment guidelines and risk scoring rules within the system and design the framework so it can be extended to a range of other cardiovascular diseases in various clinical settings.