Representation of Structural Relationships in the Foundational Model of Anatomy

Mejino, Jose L V and Noy, N. F. and Musen, M. A. and Brinkley, James F and Rosse, Cornelius (2001) Representation of Structural Relationships in the Foundational Model of Anatomy. In Proceedings, American Medical Informatics Association Fall Symposium, pages 973.

Abstract

Previous attempts at the symbolic representation of anatomical relationships have been largely limited to partonomy. We propose an ontology of anatomical relationships and illustrate the inheritance of structural attributes in the Digital Anatomist Foundational Model. Our purpose is to generate a sharable resource that can support inference about the structural organization of the body.