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A SEMANTIC FRAMEWORK TO INTEGRATE HEALTHCARE AND CLINICAL KNOWLEDGE IN MEDICAL DEVICE INNOVATION AND DESIGN

机译:在医疗设备创新和设计中整合医疗保健和临床知识的语义框架

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Within the medical field, there has been significant progress in the development of ontologies and their subsequent use to represent and utilize knowledge more effectively. These have culminated in the creation of large, curated medical ontologies for use in a wide array of applications, as well as higher level frameworks to organize and mitigate conflicts between disparate ontologies. While the engineering field has not been a similar progress in developing and adopting curated ontologies, there has been extensive research into how to effectively use semantic frameworks in engineering knowledge management and design in general, and specifically for the effective creation and documentation of functional basis models. Functional models are a useful tool in the early phases of product design, as they can help more effectively define goals and represent how a product must behave to accomplish these goals. In the specific realm of medical device design however, this process is complicated by a number of factors, including the complexity of the healthcare system and clinical knowledge, as well as a lack of domain specific expertise in the engineering field. Because of these challenges, effective transfer of information from medical domain experts to an engineering context and subsequent utilization of this information are essential to the success of a medical device innovation project. Despite the magnitude and importance of this challenge, few tools exist to help designers record, contextualize, and utilize medical knowledge for the specific purpose of engineering design. In this paper, we present a framework for directly integrating clinical knowledge relating to medical science and practice into the early phases of the engineering process to assist in medical device innovation and design. To accomplish this, existing medical and engineering ontologies were researched, obtained, and interlinked so as to explicitly tie functional models of medical device designs to the underlying medical clinical knowledge and procedures that define a product's operational environment. The result is a framework that unifies the knowledge embodied in large medical ontologies with the functional basis ontology. This integration facilitates the effective preservation and use of medical knowledge in functional model creation and in the engineering design innovation process in general. To demonstrate the potential usefulness of this framework, we present a simple example of how our framework can be used to associate a functional model with a deconstructed medical procedure, thus enabling the seamless integration of a medical perspective directly into an engineering model.
机译:在医学领域,本体论的发展及其随后的使用来更有效地表示和利用知识,已经取得了重大进展。这些最终导致创建了大型的,可广泛用于各种应用程序的医学本体,以及用于组织和缓解不同本体之间的冲突的更高级别的框架。尽管工程领域在开发和采用策展的本体论方面并没有取得类似的进步,但是已经广泛研究了如何在工程知识管理和设计中有效地使用语义框架,尤其是有效创建和记录功能基础模型的文档。 。功能模型在产品设计的早期阶段是一个有用的工具,因为它们可以帮助更有效地定义目标并表示产品必须如何实现这些目标。但是,在医疗设备设计的特定领域中,此过程由于许多因素而变得复杂,包括医疗保健系统和临床知识的复杂性,以及工程领域中缺乏特定领域的专业知识。由于这些挑战,信息从医疗领域专家到工程环境的有效转移以及对信息的后续利用对于医疗器械创新项目的成功至关重要。尽管这一挑战的规模和重要性很大,但很少有工具可以帮助设计人员记录,情境化和利用医学知识来实现​​工程设计的特定目的。在本文中,我们提供了一个框架,可将与医学和实践有关的临床知识直接整合到工程过程的早期阶段,以帮助医疗器械创新和设计。为此,对现有的医学和工程本体进行了研究,获取和互连,以便将医疗设备设计的功能模型与定义产品操作环境的基础医学临床知识和程序明确地联系在一起。结果是建立了一个框架,该框架将大型医学本体中包含的知识与功能基础本体统一在一起。这种集成有助于在功能模型创建和工程设计创新过程中有效地保存和使用医学知识。为了说明该框架的潜在用途,我们给出一个简单的示例,说明如何使用我们的框架将功能模型与解构的医疗程序相关联,从而使医疗观点直接无缝集成到工程模型中。

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