title: The @neurIST ontology of intracranial aneurysms: providing terminological services for an integrated IT infrastructure.
abstract: The @neurIST ontology is currently under development within the scope of the European project @neurIST intended to serve as a module in a complex architecture aiming at providing a better understanding and management of intracranial aneurysms and subarachnoid hemorrhages. Due to the integrative structure of the project the ontology needs to represent entities from various disciplines on a large spatial and temporal scale. Initial term acquisition was performed by exploiting a database scaffold, literature analysis and communications with domain experts. The ontology design is based on the DOLCE upper ontology and other existing domain ontologies were linked or partly included whenever appropriate (e.g., the FMA for anatomical entities and the UMLS for definitions and lexical information). About 2300 predominantly medical entities were represented but also a multitude of biomolecular, epidemiological, and hemodynamic entities. The usage of the ontology in the project comprises terminological control, text mining, annotation, and data mediation.
authors.affiliation: Department of Medical Informatics, University Hospital Freiburg, Stefan Meier-Str. 26, D-79104 Freiburg, Germany. martin.boeker@uniklinik-freiburg.de
authors.forename: Martin
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Boeker
authors.forename: Holger
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Stenzhorn
authors.forename: Kai
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Kumpf
authors.forename: Philippe
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Bijlenga
authors.forename: Stefan
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Schulz
authors.forename: Susanne
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Hanser
mesh_terms: D019992:Databases as Topic; D005060:Europe; D006801:Humans; D020407:Internet; D002532:Intracranial Aneurysm / Q000628:therapy; D008491:Medical Informatics Applications; D013345:Subarachnoid Hemorrhage / Q000628:therapy; D018511:Systems Integration; D009626:Terminology as Topic; D018875:Vocabulary, Controlled