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. 2015 May 1:6:23.
doi: 10.1186/s13326-015-0016-2. eCollection 2015.

Developing VISO: Vaccine Information Statement Ontology for patient education

Muhammad Amith  1 , Yang Gong  1 , Rachel Cunningham  2 , Julie Boom  2 , Cui Tao  1
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Developing VISO: Vaccine Information Statement Ontology for patient education

Muhammad Amith et al. J Biomed Semantics. .

Abstract

Objective: To construct a comprehensive vaccine information ontology that can support personal health information applications using patient-consumer lexicon, and lead to outcomes that can improve patient education.

Methods: The authors composed the Vaccine Information Statement Ontology (VISO) using the web ontology language (OWL). We started with 6 Vaccine Information Statement (VIS) documents collected from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) website. Important and relevant selections from the documents were recorded, and knowledge triples were derived. Based on the collection of knowledge triples, the meta-level formalization of the vaccine information domain was developed. Relevant instances and their relationships were created to represent vaccine domain knowledge.

Results: The initial iteration of the VISO was realized, based on the 6 Vaccine Information Statements and coded into OWL2 with Protégé. The ontology consisted of 132 concepts (classes and subclasses) with 33 types of relationships between the concepts. The total number of instances from classes totaled at 460, along with 429 knowledge triples in total. Semiotic-based metric scoring was applied to evaluate quality of the ontology.

Keywords: Biomedical informatics; Knowledge based systems; Ontology; Ontology construction; Vaccine Information Statements; Vaccines.

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Vaccine Information Statement Ontology (VISO). Parent-level graph of VISO classes.
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Figure 2
Dosage modeling example. Example of Dosage instance representation with an excerpt from the MMR VIS.
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Figure 3
Target modeling example. Example of Target instance representation with an excerpt from the DTaP VIS.
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Figure 4
Reaction modeling example. Example of Reaction instance representation with an excerpt from the Hepatitis B VIS.
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