Design and Construction of Nuclear Medicine Ontology

Introduction: Considering the important role of ontologies in information organization and increasing the efficiency of information retrieval systems, as well as the growing development of the nuclear medicine field and its concepts, and the need for integrated and coherent organization and precise...

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Main Authors: Laleh Torabi, Zohreh Mirhosseini, Zahra Abazari, Molouk Sadat Hosseini-Beheshti
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Published: Vesnu Publications 2021-08-01
Series:مدیریت اطلاعات سلامت
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Online Access:http://him.mui.ac.ir/index.php/him/article/view/4357
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author Laleh Torabi
Zohreh Mirhosseini
Zahra Abazari
Molouk Sadat Hosseini-Beheshti
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description Introduction: Considering the important role of ontologies in information organization and increasing the efficiency of information retrieval systems, as well as the growing development of the nuclear medicine field and its concepts, and the need for integrated and coherent organization and precise definition of relationships between these concepts, the present study was aimed at representing terms and concepts and designing the structure of the nuclear medicine field by implementing an ontology in this field. Methods: The field analysis method was employed in this study. The required data were gathered from the information resources published in Iran in the field of nuclear medicine indexed in the International Nuclear Information System (INIS) repository from 1985 to 2019. The seven-step method of Noy and McGuinnes was used to construct the ontology, and the Na and Neo knowledge engineering approach was employed to extract the semantic relationships between the concepts. Results: The nuclear medicine ontology included 224 concepts, 1584 axioms, 463 conceptual pairs, 926 object properties, and 817 annotative properties derived from the related information resources indexed in the INIS repository. The existing relationships between the conceptual pairs were refined and enriched and described in terms of object and annotative properties. Conclusion: Nuclear medicine ontology is an effective tool for knowledge representation in the field of nuclear medicine. The method used to extract the concepts of the field and enrich the relationships between the concepts could be the basis for enriching the relations of the INIS thesaurus and creating a basic ontology in the nuclear field.
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spelling doaj.art-a0b9805c4c0d4278972adc979aeab1e12022-12-21T21:03:15ZfasVesnu Publicationsمدیریت اطلاعات سلامت1735-78531735-98132021-08-01182818810.22122/him.v18i2.43571129Design and Construction of Nuclear Medicine OntologyLaleh Torabi0Zohreh Mirhosseini1Zahra Abazari2Molouk Sadat Hosseini-Beheshti3PhD Student, Knowledge and Information Science, Department of Knowledge and Information Science, School of Humanities, Tehran North Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, IranAssociate Professor, Knowledge and Information Science, Department of Knowledge and Information Science, School of Humanities, Tehran North Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, IranAssociate Professor, Knowledge and Information Science, Department of Knowledge and Information Science, School of Humanities, Tehran North Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, IranAssistant Professor, Linguistics, Iranian Research Institute for Information Science and Technology (IranDoc), Department of Terminology and Ontology, Tehran, IranIntroduction: Considering the important role of ontologies in information organization and increasing the efficiency of information retrieval systems, as well as the growing development of the nuclear medicine field and its concepts, and the need for integrated and coherent organization and precise definition of relationships between these concepts, the present study was aimed at representing terms and concepts and designing the structure of the nuclear medicine field by implementing an ontology in this field. Methods: The field analysis method was employed in this study. The required data were gathered from the information resources published in Iran in the field of nuclear medicine indexed in the International Nuclear Information System (INIS) repository from 1985 to 2019. The seven-step method of Noy and McGuinnes was used to construct the ontology, and the Na and Neo knowledge engineering approach was employed to extract the semantic relationships between the concepts. Results: The nuclear medicine ontology included 224 concepts, 1584 axioms, 463 conceptual pairs, 926 object properties, and 817 annotative properties derived from the related information resources indexed in the INIS repository. The existing relationships between the conceptual pairs were refined and enriched and described in terms of object and annotative properties. Conclusion: Nuclear medicine ontology is an effective tool for knowledge representation in the field of nuclear medicine. The method used to extract the concepts of the field and enrich the relationships between the concepts could be the basis for enriching the relations of the INIS thesaurus and creating a basic ontology in the nuclear field.http://him.mui.ac.ir/index.php/him/article/view/4357biomedical ontologiesnuclear medicineinformation systems
spellingShingle Laleh Torabi
Zohreh Mirhosseini
Zahra Abazari
Molouk Sadat Hosseini-Beheshti
Design and Construction of Nuclear Medicine Ontology
مدیریت اطلاعات سلامت
biomedical ontologies
nuclear medicine
information systems
title Design and Construction of Nuclear Medicine Ontology
title_full Design and Construction of Nuclear Medicine Ontology
title_fullStr Design and Construction of Nuclear Medicine Ontology
title_full_unstemmed Design and Construction of Nuclear Medicine Ontology
title_short Design and Construction of Nuclear Medicine Ontology
title_sort design and construction of nuclear medicine ontology
topic biomedical ontologies
nuclear medicine
information systems
url http://him.mui.ac.ir/index.php/him/article/view/4357
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