TY - GEN
T1 - Exploiting OWL reasoning services to execute ontologically-modeled clinical practice guidelines
AU - Jafarpour, Borna
AU - Abidi, Samina Raza
AU - Abidi, Syed Sibte Raza
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - Ontology-based modeling of Clinical Practice Guidelines (CPG) is a well-established approach to computerize CPG for execution in clinical decision support systems. Many CPG computerization approaches use the Web Ontology Language (OWL) to represent the CPG's knowledge, but they do not exploit its reasoning services to execute the CPG. In this paper, we present our CPG execution approach that leverages OWL reasoning services to execute CPG. In this way, both CPG knowledge representation and execution semantics are maintained within the same formalism. We have developed three different OWL-based CPG execution engines using OWL-DL, OWL 2 and SWRL. We evaluate the efficacy of our execution engines by executing an existing OWL based CPG. We also present a comparison of the execution capabilities of our three CPG execution engines.
AB - Ontology-based modeling of Clinical Practice Guidelines (CPG) is a well-established approach to computerize CPG for execution in clinical decision support systems. Many CPG computerization approaches use the Web Ontology Language (OWL) to represent the CPG's knowledge, but they do not exploit its reasoning services to execute the CPG. In this paper, we present our CPG execution approach that leverages OWL reasoning services to execute CPG. In this way, both CPG knowledge representation and execution semantics are maintained within the same formalism. We have developed three different OWL-based CPG execution engines using OWL-DL, OWL 2 and SWRL. We evaluate the efficacy of our execution engines by executing an existing OWL based CPG. We also present a comparison of the execution capabilities of our three CPG execution engines.
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-642-22218-4_39
DO - 10.1007/978-3-642-22218-4_39
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:80052978724
SN - 9783642222177
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 307
EP - 311
BT - Artificial Intelligence in Medicine - 13th Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, AIME 2011, Proceedings
T2 - 13th Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, AIME 2011
Y2 - 2 July 2011 through 6 July 2011
ER -