A medical ontology for integrating case-based reasoning, rule-based reasoning, and patient databases

摘要

Ontologies provide an explicit and shared specification of the domain knowledge in some field. With the objective of facilitating the integration of case-based reasoning, rule-based reasoning and patient databases, we propose a medical ontology, which is inherent to the ophthalmology domain, but it can be reused by another medical domains with the same representation requirements. In order to achieve this degree of reusing, the ontology was designed making a difference between core and peripheral concepts, domain-specific and method-specific concepts and task (method)-relevant and task (method)-specific concepts.