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Mirna El Ghosh1, Varvara Kalokyri2, Mélanie Sambres1
1Sorbonne Université, Inserm, Université Sorbonne Paris-Nord, LIMICS, Paris, France.
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Interoperability is crucial to overcoming various challenges of data integration in the healthcare domain. While OMOP and FHIR data standards handle syntactic heterogeneity among heterogeneous data sources, ontologies support semantic interoperability to overcome the complexity and disparity of healthcare data. This study proposes an ontological approach in the context of the EUCAIM project to support semantic interoperability among distributed big data repositories that have applied heterogeneous cancer image data models using a semantically well-founded Hyperontology for the oncology domain.
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