Terminology, Ontology and their Implementations : Teaching Guide and Notes /

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Elkin, Peter L. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2022.
Edition:1st ed. 2022.
Series:Health Informatics,
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • History of Terminology and Ontology
  • Knowledge Representation and the Logical Basis of Ontology
  • Theoretical Foundations of Terminology
  • Terminology Requirements and Standards Development
  • Terminology Design
  • Maintenance
  • Quality Control
  • Realism Based Ontology
  • What is an ontology?
  • Ontology vs. terminology
  • Ontology vs. taxonomy
  • Ontologies and databases
  • Ontology and the Semantic Web
  • Ontology in biomedical informatics
  • Bad ontologies
  • The concept orientation
  • Why ontologies so often fail
  • Recipes for success
  • Examples of successful ontologies and of how they are being used
  • The place of Referent Tracking in Biomedical Informatics
  • Introduction: what is Referent Tracking (RT)? How does it relate to ontology? What does it aim to achieve? Why does it matter?
  • Basic principles: how RT is build on top of three important distinctions made in realism-based ontology: particulars types, continuants occurrents, referents references
  • Syntax and semantics of RT-expressions
  • RT as a development tool for ontologies
  • Using RT to detect and prevent flaws in scientific research and ambiguities and inconsistencies in reports and papers
  • RT as a solution for semantic interoperability
  • Werner Ceusters
  • Bioontology in Service of Translational Science
  • Introduction to Bioontologies and the OBO Foundry
  • The Gene Ontology
  • Overview of GO Content and Structure
  • GO annotation
  • Term Enrichment/Pathway Analysis
  • Success Stories
  • Challenges
  • Bioontologies and Data Annotation Systems
  • ImmPort/HIPC
  • Kidney Precision Medicine Project
  • GEO and Array Express
  • Disease and Phenotype Annotation for Translational Studies
  • Use of Ontologies at Mouse Genome Informatics
  • HPO and the Monarch Project
  • Compositionality: An Implementation Guide
  • Interface Terminologies
  • SNOMED CT
  • RxNorm and NDF-RT and ATC codes
  • LOINC
  • SOLOR
  • ICD
  • CPT
  • HCC Codes / Risk Adjustment and MACRA / MIPS
  • DRGs
  • NCI EVS
  • Nursing Terminologies
  • RED / MED
  • UMLS Metathesauras and knowledge sources
  • Terminological Systems
  • HL7 FHIR and APIs
  • Lessons Learned and Suggested Research Agenda
  • The future of coding and coding systems
  • Conclusion.