Final Report – 2015 - 2016 Medical Informatics Postdoctoral Research

This report provides a summary for the various projects I undertook during my one year fellowship. My primary research activity was with the Medical Ontology Group (MOR) under the guidance of Dr. Bodenreider. The research with MOR focused on interoperability of biomedical terminologies and ontologies, evaluating the semantic aspects, such as coverage, completeness and alignment. Specifically, I worked on two research projects – 1. Investigating the coverage of disease concepts across SNOMED CT and the Disease Ontology (DO). 2. Leveraging lexical features of concept names using Description Logics (DL) to identify potential missing hierarchical relations in SNOMED CT.