Table 1 Ontologies related to BTO that models aspects related to MS or ALS as well as other neurological diseases. Usage TH indicates that the ontology is supposed to be treated as thesaurus; AI indicates that the ontology is used as additional information for machine learning approaches
Name | Neurological Diseases Ontology (NDO) | |
Focus | Neurological Diseases | |
Usage | TH | |
Online | Partially (Released: 2013 - Last Update: 2014) The ontology is available at https://github.com/addiehl/neurological-disease-ontology/blob/master/src/ontology/ND.owl but the URIs for classes defined within NDO are broken or non-existent. | |
Description | Ontology used to describe and annotate medical reports concerning neurologic diseases, including MS and ALS, both in biological terms, but also concerning the course of progression and clinical presentation. | |
Differences | Different approach to event modeling. Several relevant aspects of our data, such as pregnancies, onset details and specific questionnaires are missing. | |
[11] | Name | Holistic Ontology of Rare Diseases (HORD) |
Focus | Rare Diseases | |
Usage | TH, AI | |
Online | Yes (Released: 2017 - Last update: 2019) https://bioportal.bioontology.org/ontologies/HORD | |
Description | Ontology with terminology to annotate tweets about rare diseases, including MS, and enhance machine learning tools used for NLP tasks such as sentiment analysis | |
Differences | HORD models only the bio-psico-social state of a person associated with rare diseases. No details about the clinical course of the disease. | |
[12] | Name | OntoVIP |
Focus | Imaging | |
Usage | TH | |
Online | Yes (Released: 2013) http://neurolog.i3s.unice.fr/ontoneurolog/v3.0/dolce-particular.owl | |
Description | Thesaurus used to annotate medical images | |
Differences | Focus only on imaging (included those associated with MS and ALS), no further details on the patient included. |