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Aiding newly diagnosed Neuroendocrine Carcinoma of the Pancreas patients in accessing relevant disease information and options through ontology-based search.
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Semantic Web Project Pancreatic Cancer Search Facilitator
Pancreatic Cancer Search Facilitator • Our goal for this project is to aid patients diagnosed with Pancreatic Cancer find relevant information about their disease and their options. • We are targeting a patient profile of a newly diagnosed Neuroendocrine carcinoma of the Pancreas.
Steps to Achieve Project Goal • Create an Ontology (Protégé) • Create a User Profile through a GUI (Eclipse) • Crawl the web to find relevant information • Index the information searching for specified keywords through the user profile and the ontology (Eclipse and Jena Framework) • Return the relevant data to the user as clickable links.
Ontology and Patient Profile • We created an ontology so there is an accepted list of terms for us to depend on. • We created a profile for the user depending on the information they select through a GUI, that is consistent with the ontology.
Latest Progress • So far we have managed to create the ontology in Protégé and express the relationships of the classes. • We tested the Web Crawler and created the GUI in Eclipse. • We have Lucene indexing the files • We got all the components integrated into one application.
Challenges • Creating the GUI (catch attention) • The Web Crawler was given but not to well documented. • Accessing the ontology using the Jena Framework. • Getting the search to work • Integrating all the components.
Possible Improvements • Expanding the ontology • Given more options to the users • Integrate the pdf parser • Use linguistics for intelligent searches • Many more it can came up