期刊名称：International Journal of Computers and Communications
印刷版ISSN：2074-1294
出版年度：2018
卷号：12
页码：10-14
出版社：University Press
摘要：The medical ontology is used to represent and
reorganize the medical knowledge that can be shared by medical
information systems. In order to ensure the reliability and the novelty
of the medical knowledge (new treatments and tests) provided by the
ontology, it should be maintained in a consistent way. This paper
presents the maintenance of the Multiple Sclerosis (MS) disease
ontology. The treatments of this disease evolve regularly. The
maintenance of MS is realized by the use of a medical ontology
maintenance system. The maintenance of MS ontology is done
through evolution and pruning. The evolution focuses on the addition
of the new treatments applied for the MS and the pruning focuses on
removing the ontology elements that are irrelevant to the MS disease.
Three additional classes are added to the maintained ontology during
the evolution process while 68 terms (classes and individuals) are
removed from it during the pruning process.
关键词：Ontology Maintenance; Ontology Engineering;
Medical informatics; Knowledge Discovery; Multiple Sclerosis;
