Representing Complexity in Part-Whole Relationships within the Foundational Model of Anatomy

Mejino, Jose L V and Agoncillo, Augusto V and Rickard, K. L. and Rosse, Cornelius (2003) Representing Complexity in Part-Whole Relationships within the Foundational Model of Anatomy. In: American Medical Informatics Association Fall Symposium. pp. 450-454.

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Abstract

The Foundational Model of Anatomy (FMA) is a frame-based ontology that represents declarative knowledge about the structural organization of the human body. Part-whole relationships play a particularly important role in this representation. In order to assure that knowledge-based applications relying on the FMA as a resource can reason about anatomy, we have modified and enhanced currently available schemes of meronymic relationships. We have introduced and defined distinct partitions for decomposing anatomical structures and attributed the part relationships in order to eliminate ambiguity and enhance specificity in the richness of meronymic relationships within the FMA.

Item Type: Book Section
Uncontrolled Keywords: amia2003
Subjects: All Projects > Foundational Model of Anatomy
Depositing User: Jim Brinkley
Date Deposited: 27 Aug 2003
Last Modified: 19 Jul 2017 03:51
URI: http://sigpubs.si.washington.edu/id/eprint/140

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