Application Functions of Information Extraction with the Use of the Anatomical Ontology

Abstract

We are constructing a systematic knowledge foundation in medical electric information systems. To make the foundation act effectively, we are building a medical ontology on the strict rules, which we introduced, based on the study of ontology engineering. Computers will come to treat electric documents more correctly with the reference of it. We discuss necessary application functions to extract instructive medical information in the use of the anatomical region of our ontology. Assuming some questions related with anatomic, we put basic information, which is needed to answer them, in order. As the result, a set of fundamental anatomical concepts contains two typical categories: entity and relationship.