MetaMed - Medical meta data extraction and manipulation tool used in the semantically interoperable research information system

• Published in: 2012 5th International Conference on Biomedical Engineering and Informatics pp. 1270 - 1274
• Main Authors: Vcelak, Petr, Kratochvil, Michal, Kleckova, Jana, Rohan, Vladimir
• Format: Conference Proceeding
• Language: English
• Published: IEEE 01.10.2012
• Subjects: Codes; DASTA; Data mining; DICOM; extract meta data; Information systems; interoperability; Load modeling; medical data; Metadata; Ontologies; ontology; OWL; Resource description framework; User interfaces
• ISBN: 9781467311830; 1467311839
• DOI: 10.1109/BMEI.2012.6513038

The MetaMed is a tool for data and meta data extraction primarily from a heterogeneous medical data. It is a non-interactive command line open source application for processing a large amount of data. An extracted meta data is stored in the Resource Description Framework and is structured by OWL ontologies. It enables a semantic interoperability. Meta data as an index data prevents us to solve different file format and version of raw files again and again for a following research. It enables a better performance. Indexed data can be directly used in a user interface and querying for an appropriate raw data can be done. The MetaMed and the research information system is confirmed with research primarily focused on a cerebrovascular diseases.