Ontology based metadata management in medical domains
Quddus Chong, Anup Marwadi, Kaustubh Supekar, Yugyung Lee · 2008
In medical research, one of major challenges is to archive, access, and analyse various heterogeneous databases containing patient information gathered from a large volume of data over a long period of time. The main objective of this paper is (1) to examine how the use of metadata and ontologies can support the management and integration of clinical research databases and (2) to present our ontology-based metadata management system developed for the Cardiovascular Research Department at MAHI. Using the concept of web services, our system is globally accessible. The system is currently deployed on the existing medical information system at Mid America Heart Institute (MAHI) and used for clinical research.