J Korean Soc Med Inform.  2008 Mar;14(1):45-54.

Design and Implementation of Pulse-Diagnosis Ontology in Ubiquitous Computing Environment

Affiliations
  • 1Department of computer Science, Kangwon National University, Korea.
  • 2Department of Medical Instrument and Information, Hallym College, Korea. khchon@hsc.ac.kr

Abstract


OBJECTIVE
This paper proposes an ontology plan for oriental-medical service in ubiquitous computing environment. With popularization of ubiquitous computing technology, recently oriental medicine field becomes interested in oriental medicine knowledge management system and needs more systematic-scientific knowledge management and information communication. But oriental medical scientists have various standards which classify a pulse, so the information about pulse is massive. METHOD: In this paper, for more systematic-scientific knowledge management and information communication, we designed and implemented ontology using the pulse which is used as diagnosis basis in oriental medicine. by using the pulse which is classified into twenty eight division we implemented ontology based on characteristic of each pulse. We represented the pulse with OWL language and used Racer as inference engine to check errors of implemented ontology. RESULT / CONCLUSION: Given the information of the pulse-diagnosis ontology, systematic-scientific knowledge management and information communication become possible so that oriental doctors are able to provide faster and effective medical service. Furthermore, self-diagnosis and medical service will be possible at anytime and anywhere regardless of time and place. In the future research, we will implement an integrated ontology with the whole of diagnosis basis in oriental medicine based on pulse ontology implemented in this paper.

Keyword

Ubiquitous; Pulse-diagnosis; Ontology; Oriental Medicine

MeSH Terms

Hypogonadism
Knowledge Management
Medicine, East Asian Traditional
Mitochondrial Diseases
Ophthalmoplegia
Strigiformes
Hypogonadism
Mitochondrial Diseases
Ophthalmoplegia
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