Table of Contents
From Patient Data to Medical Ontologies
Creating Topic Hierarchies for Large Medical Libraries David Sánchez Antonio Moreno 1
Bridging an Asbru Protocol to an Existing Electronic Patient Record Claudio Eccher Andreas Seyfang Antonella Ferro Sergey Stankevich Silvia Miksch 14
From Natural Language Descriptions in Clinical Guidelines to Relationships in an Ontology María Taboada María Meizoso David Riaño Albert Alonso Diego Martínez 26
A Hybrid Methodology for Consumer-Oriented Healthcare Knowledge Acquisition Elena Cardillo Luciano Serafini Andrei Tamilin 38
Identifying Disease-Centric Subdomains in Very Large Medical Ontologies: A Case-Study on Breast Cancer Concepts in Snomed CT. Or: Finding 2500 Out of 300.000 Krystyna Milian Zharko Aleksovski Richard Vdovjak Annette ten Teije Frank van Harmelen|p50
Sharable Appropriateness Criteria in GLIF3 Using Standards and the Knowledge-Data Ontology Mapper Mor Peleg 64
Guideline Modeling and Tools
Analysis of the GLARE and GPROVE Approaches to Clinical Guidelines Alessio Bottrighi Federico Chesani Paola Mello Marco Montali Stefania Montani Sergio Storari Paolo Terenziani 76
Semantic Web-Based Modeling of Clinical Pathways Using the UML Activity Diagrams and OWL-S Ali Daniyal Syed Sibte Raza Abidi 88
Extracting Qualitative Knowledge from Medical Guidelines for Clinical Decision-Support Systems Maarten van der Heijden Peter J.F. Lucas 100
Experiences in the Development of Electronic Care Plans for the Management of Comorbidities Esther Lozano Mar Marcos Begoña Martínez-Salvador Albert Alonso Josep Ramon Alonso 113
Challenges in Delivering Decision Support Systems: The MATE Experience Dionisio Acosta Vivek Patkar Mo Keshtgar John Fox 124
Technical Solutions for Integrating Clinical Practice Guidelines with Electronic Patient Records Silvia Panzarasa Silvana Quaglini Anna Cavallini Giuseppe Micieli Simona Marcheselli Mario Stefanelli 141
Advanced Topics
Towards a Possibility-Theoretic Approach to Uncertainty in Medical Data Interpretation for Text Generation François Portet Albert Gatt 155
Argumentation about Treatment Efficacy Nikos Gorogiannis Anthony Hunter Vivek Patkar Matthew Williams 169
A Knowledge-Management Architecture to Integrate and to Share Medical and Clinical Data, Information, and Knowledge David Riaño 180
Author Index 195
