CIRO: COVID-19 infection risk ontology

Autor: Egami, Shusaku, Yamamoto, Yasunori, Ohmukai, Ikki, Okumura, Takashi
Rok vydání: 2023
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Zdroj: PLoS One, 18(3), e0282291, 2023
Druh dokumentu: Working Paper
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0282291
Popis: Public health authorities perform contact tracing for highly contagious agents to identify close contacts with the infected cases. However, during the pandemic caused by coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), this operation was not employed in countries with high patient volumes. Meanwhile, the Japanese government conducted this operation, thereby contributing to the control of infections, at the cost of arduous manual labor by public health officials. To ease the burden of the officials, this study attempted to automate the assessment of each person's infection risk through an ontology, called COVID-19 Infection Risk Ontology (CIRO). This ontology expresses infection risks of COVID-19 formulated by the Japanese government, toward automated assessment of infection risks of individuals, using Resource Description Framework (RDF) and SPARQL (SPARQL Protocol and RDF Query Language) queries. For evaluation, we demonstrated that the knowledge graph built could infer the risks, formulated by the government. Moreover, we conducted reasoning experiments to analyze the computational efficiency. The experiments demonstrated usefulness of the knowledge processing, and identified issues left for deployment.
Comment: 18 pages, 8 figures, and this paper has been accepted by PLOS ONE
Databáze: arXiv