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Anatomical Terminology

Knowledge of anatomy is essential to understand human biology and medicine. Anatomists and health care professionals use standard terminology to describe the human body with more precision and no ambiguity. Anatomical terms have mostly Greek and Latin-derived roots. Because these languages are rarely used in conversation, the meaning of words remains the same. Each term is made up of a root in between the prefixes and suffixes. The root of a term often refers to an organ, tissue, or condition,...
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Regional Terms

Regional terms describe anatomy by dividing the body parts into different regions that contain structures involved in contributing similar functions. Using these terms helps increase the accurate description and identification of the particular region of interest or region affected by the disease.
Primarily, the human body has two major regions, the axial and appendicular regions. The axial region comprises regions from the head to the abdomen and makes up the central body axis. In contrast,...
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Directional Terms

Directional terms are essential for describing the relative locations of different body structures. For instance, an anatomist might describe one band of tissue as "inferior to" another, or a physician might describe a tumor as "superficial to" a deeper body structure. These terms often use comparative terms in pairs to trace out the relative locations of one body part to another or descriptions of body tissues like the deeper ones from superficially present with reference to the body's upright...

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Cloud-Based Phrase Mining and Analysis of User-Defined Phrase-Category Association in Biomedical Publications
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Cloud-Based Phrase Mining and Analysis of User-Defined Phrase-Category Association in Biomedical Publications

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Text-mining approach to evaluate terms for ontology development.

Lam C Tsoi1, Ravi Patel, Wenle Zhao

  • 1Bioinformatics Graduate Program, Department of Biostatistics, Bioinformatics & Epidemiology, Medical University of South Carolina, 135 Cannon Street, Suite 303, Charleston, SC 29424, USA.

Journal of Biomedical Informatics
|March 26, 2009
PubMed
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Developing biological ontologies is complex. A new computational method uses PubMed to objectively assess term relevance, prioritizing terms for better ontology development.

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Cloud-Based Phrase Mining and Analysis of User-Defined Phrase-Category Association in Biomedical Publications
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Cloud-Based Phrase Mining and Analysis of User-Defined Phrase-Category Association in Biomedical Publications

Published on: February 23, 2019

Area of Science:

  • Bioinformatics
  • Computational Biology
  • Ontology Engineering

Background:

  • Developing comprehensive biological ontologies requires extensive collaboration among domain experts.
  • Current methods lack objective criteria for evaluating the relevance of proposed terms to the ontology's domain.
  • This limitation hinders efficient and accurate ontology construction.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop and validate a computational method for objectively assessing the relevance of terms for biological ontology development.
  • To provide a systematic approach for prioritizing terms based on their domain relevance.

Main Methods:

  • A computational method utilizing a hypergeometric enrichment test was developed.
  • The method leverages the PubMed literature database to analyze term frequency in domain-specific abstracts.
  • Term relevance is determined by assessing overrepresentation within the relevant literature.

Main Results:

  • The hypergeometric enrichment test effectively identifies terms that are significantly overrepresented in domain-specific literature.
  • This approach provides an objective measure of term relevance, overcoming subjective assessments.
  • Prioritization of terms based on this method can streamline the ontology development process.

Conclusions:

  • The developed computational method offers an objective and efficient approach to evaluating term relevance for biological ontologies.
  • Utilizing literature-based enrichment analysis enhances the quality and accuracy of ontology development.
  • This method facilitates the prioritization of terms, saving time and resources in ontology engineering.