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Gathering Experience with Ontology and SPARQL Based Decision Support

Jan Pettersen Nytun
Department of ICT, University of Agder, Norway

Tian Zhao
Department of ICT, University of Agder, Norway

Angelique Mukasinea
Department of ICT, University of Agder, Norway

Rune Fensli
Department of ICT, University of Agder, Norway

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Published in: Scandinavian Conference on Health Informatics; August 22; 2014; Grimstad; Norway

Linköping Electronic Conference Proceedings 102:11, p. 77-81

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Published: 2014-08-20

ISBN: 978-91-7519-241-3

ISSN: 1650-3686 (print), 1650-3740 (online)

Abstract

Use of knowledge-based decision support systems in medicine may improve the quality of medical care. We have executed several projects at UIA involving semantic web technologies like OWL; SPARQL and Jena; the application area has often been E-health; among these projects are two recent master student projects investigating the use of OWL and SPARQL to realize two different decision support systems. One project concerned monitoring vital signs of a patient estimating the state of the patient using a score system; recommendations based on score and additional rules were given. The other project defined an ontology storing medical patient information; with focus on diabetes and recommendations for diabetes patients; recommendations could be retrieved by querying the ontology. The projects used the Protégé framework when doing the development; this implied limitations that made the development cumbersome. The paper proposes another approach based on the Jena framework. The projects are analyzed in regard to technology; extensions and alternative solutions are discussed and proposed. The paper describes and recommends technology that may be used to build an advance medical knowledge-based decision support system.

Keywords

eHealth; knowledge-based decision support system; Ontology; OWL; SPARQL; Jena

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