The Orphanet Rare Disease Ontology (ORDO) provides a structured vocabulary encapsulating rare diseases. Downstream applications of ORDO depend on its accuracy to …
F Zheng, J Shi, L Cui - AMIA Annual Symposium Proceedings, 2021 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Incompleteness of ontologies affects the quality of downstream ontology-based applications. In this paper, we introduce a novel lexical-based approach to automatically detect potentially …
Gene Ontology (GO) is widely used in the biological domain. It is the most comprehensive ontology providing formal representation of gene functions (GO concepts) and relations …
F Zheng, J Shi, Y Yang, WJ Zheng… - Journal of the American …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Objective The Unified Medical Language System (UMLS) integrates various source terminologies to support interoperability between biomedical information systems. In this …
Biomedical terminologies play a vital role in managing biomedical data. Missing IS-A relations in a biomedical terminology could be detrimental to its downstream usages. In this …
Biomedical terminologies such as National Cancer Institute thesaurus (NCIt) have been widely used in supporting various biomedical research and applications. Therefore, the …
Auditing the Human Phenotype Ontology (HPO) is necessary to provide accurate terminology for its use in clinical research. We investigate an approach leveraging the …
F Zheng, R Abeysinghe, N Sioutos, L Whiteman… - BMC Medical Informatics …, 2020 - Springer
Abstract Background The National Cancer Institute (NCI) Thesaurus provides reference terminology for NCI and other systems. Previously, we proposed a hybrid prototype utilizing …
Uncovering and fixing errors in biomedical terminologies is essential so that they provide accurate knowledge to downstream applications that rely on them. Non-lattice-based …