Some views about images of the health context: a proposal for construction of an ontology

Abstract

The images of the field of health are of great importance to confirm or deny the existence of a disease, allowing a greater accuracy in diagnostic investigations and treatment of diseases. They are rich sources of information and therefore require treatment of information. In this context, this article is part and presents the results of a research whose objective is to design and build an image domain ontology from nephrology aiming indexal representation and retrieval of imagery in the electronic environment. The corpus of the study was the electronic patient record. The ontology of the verbal text was built in Protégé-software-Stanford University and imported into the software Active Media Software - Ontology-based Annotation system Sheffield University, to build the ontology of the image. The results show that it is possible to build ontologies from texts verbal and nonverbal, with the union of these two softwares.