Ontology Engineering for Gastric Dystemperament in Persian Medicine.

IF 1.3 4区医学 Q3 COMPUTER SCIENCE, INFORMATION SYSTEMS

Methods of Information in Medicine Pub Date : 2021-12-01 Epub Date: 2021-08-26 DOI:10.1055/s-0041-1735168

Hassan Shojaee-Mend, Haleh Ayatollahi, Azam Abdolahadi

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Abstract

Objective: Developing an ontology can help collecting and sharing information in traditional medicine including Persian medicine in a well-defined format. The present study aimed to develop an ontology for gastric dystemperament in the Persian medicine.

Methods: This was a mixed-methods study conducted in 2019. The first stage was related to providing an ontology requirements specification document. In the second stage, important terms, concepts, and their relationships were identified via literature review and expert panels. Then, the results derived from the second stage were refined and validated using the Delphi method in three rounds. Finally, in the fourth stage, the ontology was evaluated in terms of consistency and coherence.

Results: In this study, 241 concepts related to different types of gastric dystemperament, diagnostic criteria, and treatments in the Persian medicine were identified through literature review and expert panels, and 12 new concepts were suggested during the Delphi study. In total, after performing three rounds of the Delphi study, 233 concepts were identified. Finally, an ontology was developed with 71 classes, and the results of the evaluation study revealed that the ontology was consistent and coherent.

Conclusion: In this study, an ontology was created for gastric dystemperament in the Persian medicine. This ontology can be used for designing future systems, such as case-based reasoning and expert systems. Moreover, the use of other evaluation methods is suggested to construct a more complete and precise ontology.

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目的:建立传统医学(包括波斯医学)的本体论，有助于以定义良好的格式收集和共享信息。本研究旨在建立波斯医学胃病本体论。方法:这是一项于2019年进行的混合方法研究。第一个阶段与提供本体需求规范文档有关。在第二阶段，通过文献回顾和专家小组来确定重要的术语、概念及其关系。然后，使用德尔菲法对第二阶段得出的结果进行三轮细化和验证。最后，在第四阶段，对本体进行一致性和相干性评价。结果:本研究通过文献回顾和专家评议，确定了241个与波斯医学中不同类型胃不适、诊断标准和治疗相关的概念，并通过德尔菲研究提出了12个新概念。在进行了三轮德尔菲研究之后，总共确定了233个概念。最后，建立了包含71个类的本体，评价研究结果表明，本体具有一致性和连贯性。结论:本研究建立了波斯医学胃病本体论。该本体可用于设计未来的系统，如基于案例的推理和专家系统。此外，建议使用其他评价方法来构建更完整、更精确的本体。

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Methods of Information in Medicine 医学-计算机：信息系统

CiteScore

3.70

自引率

11.80%

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审稿时长

6-12 weeks

期刊介绍： Good medicine and good healthcare demand good information. Since the journal''s founding in 1962, Methods of Information in Medicine has stressed the methodology and scientific fundamentals of organizing, representing and analyzing data, information and knowledge in biomedicine and health care. Covering publications in the fields of biomedical and health informatics, medical biometry, and epidemiology, the journal publishes original papers, reviews, reports, opinion papers, editorials, and letters to the editor. From time to time, the journal publishes articles on particular focus themes as part of a journal''s issue.