A cancer patient model based on pre-conceptual schemas: beyond encounters and cancer specificities

Carlos Mario Zapata Jaramillo

doi:10.14482/inde.43.02.365.963

Authors

Carlos Mario Zapata Jaramillo Universidad Nacional de Colombia

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14482/inde.43.02.365.963

Keywords:

Cancer, knowledge representation, model, patient, pre-conceptual schemas

Abstract

The first stage for solving complex problems involves their representation into a model. Some cancer patient models have been developed for representing the environment surrounding the patient and her characteristics. However, such models are far away from knowledge representations due to some reasons: generality, specificity to certain cancer types, focus on the patient/encounter, and segregated terminology/syntax. In this paper we propose a model of cancer patients in order to overcome the aforementioned problems. We select the so-called pre-conceptual schemas as the knowledge representation paradigm, because they can be instantiated for resembling details of the model and integrated with standards about medicine and cancer modeling.

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