Creating and Curating a Terminology for Radiology: Ontology Modeling and Analysis
Creating and Curating a Terminology for Radiology: Ontology Modeling and Analysis
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10.1007/s10278-007-9073-0
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发表时间：
2008-12-01
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4.4
通讯作者：
Rubin, Daniel L.
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作者：
Rubin, Daniel L.
放射学界已经认识到需要创建一个标准术语，以提高报告的清晰度，减少放射科医生的差异，使成像信息的访问，并提高实践的质量。这种需求最近导致了RadLex的发展，RadLex是放射学的受控术语。RadLex的创建在几个方面具有挑战性：用户很难仔细阅读大型RadLex分类法，管理员也很难浏览复杂的术语结构以检查错误和遗漏。在这项工作中，我们证明了RadLex术语可以被翻译成一个本体，表示的术语，这是人类浏览和机器处理。我们还表明，创建这个本体允许RadLex的计算分析，并使其在各种计算机应用中的使用。我们相信，采用RadLex的本体表示将允许更广泛地使用术语，并更容易从社区收集反馈，最终导致改进RadLex。
The radiology community has recognized the need to create a standard terminology to improve the clarity of reports, to reduce radiologist variation, to enable access to imaging information, and to improve the quality of practice. This need has recently led to the development of RadLex, a controlled terminology for radiology. The creation of RadLex has proved challenging in several respects: It has been difficult for users to peruse the large RadLex taxonomies and for curators to navigate the complex terminology structure to check it for errors and omissions. In this work, we demonstrate that the RadLex terminology can be translated into an ontology, a representation of terminologies that is both human-browsable and machine-processable. We also show that creating this ontology permits computational analysis of RadLex and enables its use in a variety of computer applications. We believe that adopting an ontology representation of RadLex will permit more widespread use of the terminology and make it easier to collect feedback from the community that will ultimately lead to improving RadLex.