Proceedings (Oct 2018)

Ontology-Based Categorisation of Medical Texts for Health Professionals

  • Antonio Balderas,
  • Tatiana Person,
  • Rubén Baena-Pérez,
  • Juan Manuel Dodero,
  • Iván Ruiz-Rube,
  • José Luís de-Diego-González

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3390/proceedings2191203
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 2, no. 19
p. 1203

Abstract

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The appropriate categorisation of written information by health professionals is very important to guarantee its accessibility. Unfortunately, the information technology tools that support professionals on that task imply a heavy workload, so that the responsibility for categorising the written content is often delegated to administrative staff. Well-known health ontologies such as SNOMED-CT or MeSH provide a representation of the clinical contents to be used by the information systems. This research proposes a computer based method to automatically extract and code the diagnostics, procedures and treatments according to health ontologies. A Knowledge Management System based on an extended version of Drupal is used to implement and evaluate this proposal. Results provide a positive evidence on the application of the method to support medical professionals.

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