Medical data integration - an algebraic approach

• Autorzy: Jankowska B.M.
• Języki publikacji: EN

Abstrakty

EN

It would be difficult to find a knowledge domain in which data integration is as important as in medicine, being interested in human health and life. Firstly, medical data integration enables acquiring all the information, stored anywhere, about a patient who needs an urgent medical intervention. Secondly, thanks to the integration, we can obtain an aggregate data comprising all known, similar medical cases. In fact, the aggregate data is a source of medical knowledge and a base for formulating conclusions about hypothetical diagnoses, and methods of treating the disorder diagnosed. In the paper, it is shown that a uniform, theoretical approach for the both kinds of data integration: horizontal and vertical, respectively, is possible. It is an algebraic approach, joined together with the use of taxonomy of medical and related concepts. Having the algebra of the concepts, we can as well check the permissibility of data integrating (by means of the subsumption relation, defined on the set of all concepts), as describe the semantics of this process (by means of the usual algebraic operations of sum and intersection).

Słowa kluczowe

EN

data integration; taxonomy of concepts; tuple format; XML format; medical diagnosis; treatment method; algebra of medical concepts

PL

integracja danych; metody leczenia; diagnostyka medyczna; format XML

• Wydawca: University of Silesia, Institute of Informatics, Computer Systems Department
• Czasopismo: Journal of Medical Informatics & Technologies
• Rocznik: 2008
• Tom: Vol. 12
• Strony: 241--247
• Opis fizyczny: Bibliogr. 12 poz., rys., tab.

Twórcy

autor

Jankowska B.M.

• Poznań University of Technology, Institute of Control and Information Engineering, 60-965 Poznan, Pl. M.Sklodowskiej-Curie 5

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