TY - GEN

T1 - Development of a Depression Ontology as a Necessary Step for the Effective Implementation of IT in Psychopathology

AU - Semin, Timofei I.

N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2022 IEEE.

PY - 2022

Y1 - 2022

N2 - Informational technologies have been used in medicine and biology for decades. Machine learning algorithms have proven effective for the analysis of data of all possible types and disorders diagnoses. Decision-making support systems, which were based on ontologies developed at the turn of the century, have also been widely disseminated. However, in psychopathology the situation is different: only a few attempts to implement the IT are presented and their efficiency remains questionable. Furthermore, in recent years, there has been lower progress in the research of mental disorders, despite the growing role of the latter in modern society. In this article, we try to explore the reasons for mentioned problems. From our point of view, the main cause is the absence of a satisfying formalized representation of mental disorders area. Therefore, we assume that it is necessary to create an ontology of mental disorders as a comprehensive and noncontradictory model and propose our approach to the development of the ontology of a more specialized data domain such as Depression, as an initial step. In the article, we also consider already existing approaches to the formalization of the depression and mental disorders data domains and identified possible perspectives.

AB - Informational technologies have been used in medicine and biology for decades. Machine learning algorithms have proven effective for the analysis of data of all possible types and disorders diagnoses. Decision-making support systems, which were based on ontologies developed at the turn of the century, have also been widely disseminated. However, in psychopathology the situation is different: only a few attempts to implement the IT are presented and their efficiency remains questionable. Furthermore, in recent years, there has been lower progress in the research of mental disorders, despite the growing role of the latter in modern society. In this article, we try to explore the reasons for mentioned problems. From our point of view, the main cause is the absence of a satisfying formalized representation of mental disorders area. Therefore, we assume that it is necessary to create an ontology of mental disorders as a comprehensive and noncontradictory model and propose our approach to the development of the ontology of a more specialized data domain such as Depression, as an initial step. In the article, we also consider already existing approaches to the formalization of the depression and mental disorders data domains and identified possible perspectives.

KW - depression

KW - formalization

KW - mental disorders

KW - ontology

KW - psychopathology

KW - systematization

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U2 - 10.1109/EDM55285.2022.9855169

DO - 10.1109/EDM55285.2022.9855169

M3 - Conference contribution

AN - SCOPUS:85137372888

SN - 9781665498043

T3 - International Conference of Young Specialists on Micro/Nanotechnologies and Electron Devices, EDM

SP - 551

EP - 554

BT - Proceedings of the 2022 IEEE 23rd International Conference of Young Professionals in Electron Devices and Materials, EDM 2022

PB - IEEE Computer Society

T2 - 23rd IEEE International Conference of Young Professionals in Electron Devices and Materials, EDM 2022

Y2 - 30 June 2022 through 4 July 2022

ER -