title: OntoDiagram: automatic diagram generation for congenital heart defects in pediatric cardiology.
abstract: In pediatric cardiology as well as many other medical specialties, the accurate portrayal of a large volume of patient information is crucial to providing good patient care. Our research aims at utilizing clinical and spatial ontologies representing the human heart, to automatically generate a Mullins-like diagram based on a patient's information in the cardiology databases. Our ontology allows an intuitive way of modeling congenital defects with the structure of the human heart. A prototype system has been implemented using Protege and the Java Advanced Imaging package , and is currently under testing at the Children's Mercy Hospitals and Clinics. A pilot study showed the diagrammatical representation and characterization of congenital heart defects can be used to facilitate a better understanding of a complex congenital heart defects.
authors.affiliation: School of Computing & Engineering, University of Missouri-Kansas City, MO 64110, USA.
authors.forename: Kartik
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Vishwanath
authors.forename: Venkatesh
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Viswanath
authors.forename: William
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Drake
authors.forename: Yugyung
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Lee
mesh_terms: D019412:Anatomy, Cross-Sectional; D002309:Cardiology; D002648:Child; D006321:Heart / Q000033:anatomy & histology*; D006330:Heart Defects, Congenital / Q000473:pathology*; D006801:Humans; D007091:Image Processing, Computer-Assisted; D008953:Models, Anatomic; D010372:Pediatrics; D011381:Programming Languages; D014584:User-Computer Interface