Application of fuzzy cognitive maps using semantic web approaches to model medical knowledge

摘要

This study presents our investigation into a generic approach to model medical knowledge, using the semantic web framework, to have explicit knowledge with a clear semantic meaning and cognitive maps. Fuzzy Cognitive Maps are proposed to model the medical knowledge extracting by clinical guidelines as they have been proven by literature as powerful knowledge representation and reasoning tools. A general purpose reasoning engine, Eye, with the necessary plug-ins was developed to be able to perform the reasoning on this knowledge model. The concepts and causal relationships among them are transferred in semantic web using the notationi. Our effort is mainly concentrated to present the main aspects of formalizing medical knowledge using cognitive maps and semantic web. The advantage of this approach is to enable the sharing and reuse of knowledge from databases of guidelines and simplify maintenance.