Ontologies in Medicine, Vol. 102
Mostly Italian, but also other European and American scholars of ontology, philosophy, computer science, and information science review fundamental theoretical issues regarding ontologies, and demonstrate with real case studies the effectiveness of the ontological approach in interoperable information systems for medicine. Among the topics are bodily systems and the spatial-functional structure of the human body, context-based task ontologies for clinical guidelines, an ontological framework...
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If ontology is the solution, what is the problem?1Biodynamic ontology : applying BFO in the biomedical domain20Bodily systems and the spatial-functional structure of the human body39Inflammation ontology design pattern : an exercise in building a core biomedical ontology with descriptions and situations64Context-based task ontologies for clinical guidelines81An ontological framework for the implementation of clinical guidelines in health care organizations95Gene ontology applicatino to genomic functional annotation, statistical analysis and knowledge mining108Evolving from standard vocabularies to formal ontology for an information system dedicated to organ transplantation132Mistakes in medical ontologies : where do they come from and how can they be detected?145
