OntoDiagram: automatic diagram generation for congenital heart defects in pediatric cardiology

AMIA Annu Symp Proc. 2005:2005:754-8.

Abstract

In pediatric cardiology as well as many other medical specialties, the accurate portrayal of a large volume of patient information is crucial to providing good patient care. Our research aims at utilizing clinical and spatial ontologies representing the human heart, to automatically generate a Mullins-like diagram based on a patient's information in the cardiology databases. Our ontology allows an intuitive way of modeling congenital defects with the structure of the human heart. A prototype system has been implemented using Protege and the Java Advanced Imaging package , and is currently under testing at the Children's Mercy Hospitals and Clinics. A pilot study showed the diagrammatical representation and characterization of congenital heart defects can be used to facilitate a better understanding of a complex congenital heart defects.

MeSH terms

  • Anatomy, Cross-Sectional
  • Cardiology
  • Child
  • Heart / anatomy & histology*
  • Heart Defects, Congenital / pathology*
  • Humans
  • Image Processing, Computer-Assisted*
  • Models, Anatomic*
  • Pediatrics
  • Programming Languages
  • User-Computer Interface