Partonomic Reasoning as Taxonomic Reasoning in Medicine

Taxonomic anatomical knowledge, a major portion of medicalontologies, is fundamentally characterized by is-a and part-wholerelations betweenconcepts. While taxonomicreasoningin generalization hierarchies is well-understood, no fully conclusive mechanism as yet exists for partonomicreasoning. Wehere propose a newrepresentation construct for part-wholerelations, based on the formalframework of description logics, that allows us to fully reducepartonomic reasoningto classification-based taxonomic reasoning.

Authors

• Udo Hahn Kornél Markó
• Freiburg University; Stefan Schulz
• Martin Romacker
• Freiburg University
• Freiburg University Hospital

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