DocumentCode
3428606
Title
A semantic model for representing items in clinical trials
Author
Mücke, Roland ; Löbe, Matthias ; Knuth, Magnus ; Loebe, Frank
Author_Institution
Inst. for Med. Inf., Univ. of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany
fYear
2009
fDate
2-5 Aug. 2009
Firstpage
1
Lastpage
8
Abstract
The specification of clinical items is a fundamental problem in the planning of a clinical trial. In this paper we present an approach that uses an RDF model in combination with a suite of OWL ontologies to formally describe the structural and conceptual composition of items. We argue that a semantic Web data model is more flexible than traditional relational models and therefore more appropriate for specifying and managing data variables with regard to data validity and mappings to external medical terminologies.
Keywords
hospitals; knowledge representation languages; ontologies (artificial intelligence); semantic Web; OWL ontology; RDF model; clinical item specification; clinical trial; semantic Web data model; semantic model; Biomedical informatics; Clinical trials; Computer science; Databases; Laboratories; Measurement units; OWL; Ontologies; Resource description framework; Semantic Web;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Computer-Based Medical Systems, 2009. CBMS 2009. 22nd IEEE International Symposium on
Conference_Location
Albuquerque, NM
ISSN
1063-7125
Print_ISBN
978-1-4244-4879-1
Electronic_ISBN
1063-7125
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/CBMS.2009.5255409
Filename
5255409
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