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ArticleArtificial intelligence in medicine2017

From SNOMED CT to Uberon: Transferability of evaluation methodology between similarly structured ontologies.

Gai Elhanan, Christopher Ochs, Jose L V Mejino, Hao Liu, Christopher J Mungall, Yehoshua Perl

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  2. Missing lateral relationships in top-level concepts of an ontology.BMC medical informatics and decision making · 2020
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  6. Taxonomy-Based Approaches to Quality Assurance of Ontologies.Journal of healthcare engineering · 2017
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Gai ElhananComputer Science Department, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ, USA. Electronic address: gelhanan@gmail.com.
Christopher OchsComputer Science Department, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ, USA.
Jose L V MejinoDepartment of Biological Structure (Structural Informatics Group), University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.
Hao LiuComputer Science Department, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ, USA.
Christopher J MungallGenomics Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA.
Yehoshua PerlComputer Science Department, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ, USA.

Funding

A family-based framework of quality assurance for biomedical ontologiesR01CA190779 · NCI · NEW JERSEY INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY · PI PERL, YEHOSHUA · 2015 to 2017
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NCI NIH HHS R01 CA190779
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

objectiveTo examine whether disjoint partial-area taxonomy, a semantically-based evaluation methodology that has been successfully tested in SNOMED CT, will perform with similar effectiveness on Uberon, an anatomical ontology that belongs to a structurally similar family of ontologies as SNOMED CT.

methodA disjoint partial-area taxonomy was generated for Uberon. One hundred randomly selected test concepts that overlap between partial-areas were matched to a same size control sample of non-overlapping concepts. The samples were blindly inspected for non-critical issues and presumptive errors first by a general domain expert whose results were then confirmed or rejected by a highly experienced anatomical ontology domain expert. Reported issues were subsequently reviewed by Uberon's curators.

resultsOverlapping concepts in Uberon's disjoint partial-area taxonomy exhibited a significantly higher rate of all issues. Clear-cut presumptive errors trended similarly but did not reach statistical significance. A sub-analysis of overlapping concepts with three or more relationship types indicated a much higher rate of issues.

conclusionsOverlapping concepts from Uberon's disjoint abstraction network are quite likely (up to 28.9%) to exhibit issues. The results suggest that the methodology can transfer well between same family ontologies. Although Uberon exhibited relatively few overlapping concepts, the methodology can be combined with other semantic indicators to expand the process to other concepts within the ontology that will generate high yields of discovered issues.

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SemanticsSystematized Nomenclature of MedicineBiological OntologiesAnatomy ontologyDisjoint abstraction networkOverlapping conceptsQuality assuranceSemantic complexity

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PMCPMC5559337

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