Chamseddine Barki
Prediction of bladder cancer treatment side effects using an ontology-based reasoning for enhanced patient health safety
Barki, Chamseddine; Rahmouni, Hanene Boussi; Labidi, Salam
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Abstract
Predicting potential cancer treatment side effects at time of prescription could decrease potential health risks and achieve better patient satisfaction. This paper presents a new approach, founded on evidence-based medical knowledge, using as much information and proof as possible to help a computer program to predict bladder cancer treatment side effects and support the oncologist’s decision. This will help in deciding treatment options for patients with bladder malignancies. Bladder cancer knowledge is complex and requires simplification before any attempt to represent it in a formal or computerized manner. In this work we rely on the capabilities of OWL ontologies to seamlessly capture and conceptualize the required knowledge about this type of cancer and the underlying patient treatment process. Our ontology allows case-based reasoning to effectively predict treatment side effects for a given set of contextual information related to a specific medical case. The ontology is enriched with proofs and evidence collected from online biomedical research databases using “web crawlers”. We have exclusively designed the crawler algorithm to search for the required knowledge based on a set of specified keywords. Results from the study presented 80.3% of real reported bladder cancer treatment side-effects prediction and were close to really occurring adverse events recorded within the collected test samples when applying the approach. Evidence-based medicine combined with semantic knowledge-based models is prominent in generating predictions related to possible health concerns. The integration of a diversity of knowledge and evidence into one single integrated knowledge-base could dramatically enhance the process of predicting treatment risks and side effects applied to bladder cancer oncotherapy.
Journal Article Type | Article |
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Acceptance Date | Aug 18, 2021 |
Online Publication Date | Aug 19, 2021 |
Publication Date | Aug 19, 2021 |
Deposit Date | Aug 30, 2021 |
Publicly Available Date | Aug 31, 2021 |
Journal | Informatics |
Electronic ISSN | 2227-9709 |
Publisher | MDPI |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Volume | 8 |
Issue | 3 |
Article Number | 55 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.3390/informatics8030055 |
Keywords | Computer Networks and Communications; Human-Computer Interaction; Communication |
Public URL | https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/7717935 |
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