Buffalo Ontology Group Meeting, May 11, 2022

Venue: Department of Biomedical Informatics, UB Downtown Gateway, 77 Goodell Buffalo, NY 14203

Also accessible via Zoom link

4:00 Barry Smith (UB): BFO and Remarks on AI in Medicine

Will describe the new BFO top-level ontology standard (ISO/IEC 21838:2) and sketch some of the implications for the use of AI in medicine of the [1] new book forthcoming in August 2022.

4:20 Melissa Resnick (UB Department of Biomedical Informatics): Using A Terminology To Represent The ACORN Social Determinants Of Health Screening Tool: Preliminary Work

This presentation will describe a terminology for representing Social Determinants of Health.

4:45 Morgan Mitchell (UB Department of Biomedical Informatics): The Protein Conformation Ontology

The Protein Conformation Ontology (PRC) provides a set of classes to describe protein secondary, tertiary (protein domains), and quaternary structure, with the basic approach of modeling these conformations as dispositions that inhere in one or more polypeptide segments.

5:05 Alexander Bartnik (Buffalo Neuroimaging Analysis Center and UB Department of Neurology): The MRI Acquisition and Analysis Ontology

The MRI Acquisition and Analysis Ontology (MRIO) represents data types and acquisition and analysis methods associated with magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in order to classify the DICOM headers of MRI files to facilitate indexing and further analyses of these image files.