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ArticleApplied clinical informatics2019

Ontology-Based Interactive Visualization of Patient-Generated Research Questions.

David Borland, Laura Christopherson, Charles Schmitt

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Article in Applied clinical informatics, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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3 authors.

David BorlandRENCI, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States.
Laura ChristophersonRENCI, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States.
Charles SchmittNational Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Durham, North Carolina, United States.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundCrohn's disease and colitis are chronic conditions that affect every facet of patients' lives (e.g., social interaction, family, work, diet, and sleep). Thus, treatment consists largely of disease management. The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill chapter of the Crohn's and Colitis Foundation-IBD Partners-has created an interactive website that, in addition to providing helpful information and disease management tools, provides a discussion forum for patients to talk about their experiences and suggest new lines of research into Crohn's disease and colitis.

objectivesThe primary objective of this work is to enable researchers to more effectively browse the forum content. Researchers wish to identify important/popular patient-suggested research topics, appreciate the full breadth of the research topics, and see connections between them, in order to more effectively prioritize research agendas.

methodsTo help structure the forum content we have developed an ontology describing the major themes in the discussion forum. We have also created a prototype interactive visualization tool that leverages the ontology to help researchers identify common themes and related patient-generated research topics via linked views of (1) the ontology, (2) a research topic overview clustered by relevant ontology terms, and (3) a detailed view of the discussion forum content.

resultsWe discuss visualizations and interactions enabled by the visualization tool, provide an example scenario using the tool, and discuss limitations and future work based on feedback from potential users.

conclusionThe integration of a user-community specific ontology with an interactive visualization tool is a promising approach for enabling researchers to more effectively study user-generated research questions.

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Biological OntologiesBiomedical ResearchColitisCrohn DiseaseData MiningFeedbackHumansUser-Computer Interface

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PMID31167249
PMCPMC6551210

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