An Example of Ontology in Medical Diagnosis: A Case Study

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The widespread use of AI tools in recent years has put even more emphasis on the interaction between humans and computers in terms of information exchange and knowledge representation. Appropriate knowledge representation is important in the context of human-computer interaction because the knowledge has to be represented in a manner that is understandable to humans while still being useful for computers. This paper describes the approach of knowledge representation using ontologies and provides a use case example of using this approach in medical diagnosis.

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Prnjak, A., Rosić, M., Zaharija, G., Krpan, D., Mladenović, M. (2024). An Example of Ontology in Medical Diagnosis: A Case Study. In: Pereira, A.I., Mendes, A., Fernandes, F.P., Pacheco, M.F., Coelho, J.P., Lima, J. (eds) Optimization, Learning Algorithms and Applications. OL2A 2023. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1981. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-53025-8_14

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