Web-based interactive mapping from data dictionaries to ontologies, with an application to cancer registry.

Shiqiang TaoNingzhou ZengIsaac HandsJoseph Hurt-MuellerEric B DurbinLicong CuiGuo-Qiang Zhang

Published in: BMC medical informatics and decision making (2020)

IMI provides an interactive, web-based interface for building mappings from data dictionaries to ontologies. Although our pilot-testing scope is limited, our results demonstrate feasibility using IMI for semantic enrichment of cancer registry data by mapping NAACCR data elements to NCIt concepts.

Keyphrases

electronic health record
big data
papillary thyroid
randomized controlled trial
squamous cell carcinoma
study protocol
lymph node metastasis
childhood cancer