Development of Ontology and 3D Software for the Diseases of Spine

Table 2

Diseases related information represented in ontology.

Entry	Ontology	OWL expression
Location	Anatomical disease location	spine: hasSite
Disease properties	Name of disease	rdfs: label
	Classification of diseases	rdfs: subClassOf
	Apply the standard code	spine: KOSTOM
	Definition of disease	spine: definition
		spine: description
	Clinical diagnosis	spine: diagnosis
	Cause	spine: hasCause
	Concomitant diseases	spine: hasConcomitantDisease
	Complication	spine: hasComplication
Symptom/sign	Symptom	spine: hasSymptom
		spine: causeOfSymptom
	Sign	spine: hasSign
Treatment	Surgical treatment	spine: hasSurgicalTreatment
	Nonsurgical treatment	spine: hasNonSurgicalTreatment
	Conservative treatment	spine: hasTreatmentConservative
Image	Preoperative image	spine: hasImageBeforeTx
	Postoperative image	spine: hasImageAfterTx