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Title: Interactive and batch creation of OODB medical vocabularies
Author: Arif, Muhammad
View Online: njit-etd1997-055
(x, 136 pages ~ 4.5 MB pdf)
Department: Department of Computer and Information Science
Degree: Master of Science
Program: Computer Science
Document Type: Thesis
Advisory Committee: Perl, Yehoshua (Committee co-chair)
Geller, James (Committee co-chair)
Halper, Michael (Committee member)
Date: 1997-10
Keywords: Object-oriented databases.
Information storage and retrieval systems--Medicine.
Medical informatics--Data processing.
Availability: Unrestricted
Abstract:

Controlled vocabularies are becoming popular for knowledge representation and querying. They are particularly helpful in the medical field since they can unify disparate terminologies and provide information in a compact, comprehensible manner. In this thesis, we present a mechanism to create OODB controlled medical vocabularies from flat-file format. We also describe a tool by which a user can interactively create, edit and browse the vocabulary. For better understanding of the structure of the vocabulary we designed our interface as a graphical editor and browser. The user of this interface will typically be a medical expert who either wants to add new concepts to the vocabulary or create a new vocabulary from scratch. We first describe our approach for creating the vocabulary from an existing flat-file format by batch processing. We then present the software architecture and design of an interactive vocabulary creator (IVC).


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