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Modélisation de connaissances médicales pour améliorer le descriptif des maladies humaines avec leurs plus pertinents signes caractéristiques
In EDA 2018, vol. RNTI-B-14, pp.105-120
Abstract
Healing a sick patient requires a medical diagnosis before proposing appropriate treatment. With the explosion of medical knowledges, we are interested in their exploitation to help clinicianc in collecting informations during diagnostic process. This article focuses on the development of a data model targeting knowledges available in both formal and non-formal resources. Our goal is to merge the strengths of all these resources to provide access to a variety of shared knowledges facilitating the identification and association of human diseases and to all of their available relevant characteristic signs such as symptoms and symptoms. clinical signs. On one side, we propose an ontology produced from an integration of several existing and open medical ontologies and terminologies. On another side, we exploit real cases of patients whose diagnosis has already been confirmed by clinicians. They are transcribed in textual reports in natural language, and we show here that their analysis improves the list of signs of each disease. This work then results in a knowledges base loaded from the known target ontologies on the bioportal platform such as DOID, MESH and SNOMED for disease selection, SYMP, and CSSO for all existing signs. The sample of selected textual cases concerns tropical diseases.