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We collected a set of words, suffixes, and idioms regarding actions in surgical procedures, ie. “deeds” as defined in a CEN European Prestandard; we then searched for their definitions in different authoritative sources and we performed an ontological analysis of this material according to the ONIONS methodology. The result was a formal model on surgical actions, as an extension of our previous model ON8.5, using Ontolingua with “frame ontology”.
We worked out criteria to assist domain experts in organizing hierarchies on surgical actions, according to structural, technical and functional points of view.
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Mori, A.R., Gangemi, A., Steve, G., Consorti, F., Galeazzi, E. (1997). An ontological analysis of surgical deeds. In: Keravnou, E., Garbay, C., Baud, R., Wyatt, J. (eds) Artificial Intelligence in Medicine. AIME 1997. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1211. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0029469
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