Developing a tool for crowd-sourced verification of a radiation oncology ontology: a summer project

Authors

Joshua Pratt, University of WollongongFollow
Vishal Pandian, University of WollongongFollow
Evan Morrison, University of WollongongFollow
Andrew Alexis Miller, University of WollongongFollow

RIS ID

91889

Publication Details

Pratt, J., Pandian, V., Morrison, E. & Miller, A. Andrew. (2014). Developing a tool for crowd-sourced verification of a radiation oncology ontology: a summer project. Journal of Radiation Oncology Informatics, 6 (1), 42-52.

Abstract

We have been unable to nd a verifi ed, published Radiation Oncology Ontology. We undertook the process of verifying a Radiation Oncology Ontology with a mixture of crowd-sourcing and expert-based approaches to verify relationships in the ontology. We used a natural language based approach to portray concepts and relationships, surveying users to assess the relationships between concepts in the Radiation Oncology ontology. The work used a description of a patient's history expressed in XML.The natural language statements relating concepts are available on a website for veri cation, and readers are invited to complete the survey at http://coi-hs-survey.appspot.com/ to contribute.