Extended Reflexive Ontologies for the Generation of Clinical Recommendations

Title
Extended Reflexive Ontologies for the Generation of Clinical Recommendations
Publication Date
2015
Author(s)
Sanchez, Eider
Toro, Carlos
Graña, Manuel
Sanin, Cesar
( author )
OrcID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8515-417X
Email: cmaldon3@une.edu.au
UNE Id une-id:cmaldon3
Szczerbicki, Edward
Type of document
Journal Article
Language
en
Entity Type
Publication
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Inc
Place of publication
United States of America
DOI
10.1080/01969722.2015.1007723
UNE publication id
une:1959.11/61904
Abstract

Decision recommendations are a set of alternative options for clinical decisions (e.g., diagnosis, prognosis, treatment selection, follow-up, and prevention) that are provided to decision makers by knowledge-based Clinical Decision Support Systems (k-CDSS) as aids. We propose to follow a “reasoning over domain” approach for the generation of decision recommendations by gathering and inferring conclusions from production rules. In order to rationalize our approach, we present a specification that will sustain the logic models supported in the knowledge bases we use for persistence. We introduce first the underlying knowledge model and then the necessary extensions that will convey toward the solution of the reported needs. The starting point of our approach is the proposition of Reflexive Ontologies (RO). Here, we go a step further, proposing an extension of RO that includes the handling and reasoning that production rules provide. Our approach speeds up the recommendation generation process.

Link
Citation
Cybernetics and Systems, 46(1-2), p. 4-18
ISSN
1087-6553
0196-9722
Start page
4
End page
18

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