Studies in health technology and informatics · 2019 · 11 citations · 0 references
Veterinary MedicineBiomedical InformaticsInfectious DiseasesDisease SurveillanceEpidemiologyInfectious Disease EpidemiologyBacterial InfectionsDisease ForecastingDisease Surveillance SystemsEpidemic ForecastingInfectious Disease SurveillanceOntology EngineeringBiomedical OntologiesClinical Event ExtractionDisease Concept ExtractionEvent ExtractionMedical OntologiesMeningitis SurveillanceOntologiesOntology-based Modeling
In sub-Saharan African countries the prevention and control of epidemic diseases requires the improvement of the surveillance system for these diseases. Biomedical ontologies are a growing field that can improve health information systems. Indeed biomedical ontologies allow semantic support, data integration, automated reasoning. We are building a meningitis ontology to assist filtering messages relevant to meningitis domain on social media in order to predict a possible epidemic. Indeed, the messages filtered are used for data and event extraction that serve as input for a meningitis surveillance system. In this paper we focused on the modeling and formalization of different perspectives of the meningitis disease such as biological perspective, clinical perspective, epidemiological and public health perspective. This paper presents the three modules in the global Infection Disease Ontology for Meningitis (IDOMEN) and at the end, we illustrate a case of reasoning with our ontology.