The River Flow Model of Diseases (RFM)

Description

The RFM is a computational ontology of disease that models the causal structure of pathology. It is introduced and described in (Mizoguchi, et al. 2011), a publication by the same name. The causal categories are further developed in (Rovetto, Mizoguchi, 2015). The RFM model of abnormal biomedical states are presented in various other publications (see the Reference section).

Comments and questions are welcome. Contacts include: Dr.Riichiro Mizoguchi(mizo@jaist.ac.jp), Dr.Kouji Kozaki(kozaki@osakac.ac.jp), Dr.Yuki Yamagata.

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Ontology files are under development

RFM Ontology File [in OWL format] 2015/01/22 Updated
RFM Ontology File [in Hozo format] 2015/01/22 Updated
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References

River Flow Model of Diseases
Riichiro Mizoguchi, Kouji Kozaki, Hiroko Kou, Yuki Yamagata, Takeshi Imai, Kayo Waki, Kazuhiko Ohe
Proc. of 2nd International Conference on Biomedical Ontology(ICBO2011),pp.63-70 July 28-30, 2011, Buffalo, NY, USA, 2011.
Article (PDF), CEUR Workshop Proc. Vol.833/, & Presentation(PPT)
Causality and the Ontology of Disease
Robert J. Rovetto, Riichiro Mizoguchi.
J. of Applied Ontology, Vol.10, No.2, pp.79-105, 2015.
Article (open access, publisher)
Disease Compass - A Navigation System for Disease Knowledge Based on Ontology and Linked Data Techniques
Kouji Kozaki, Yuki Yamagata, Riichiro Mizoguchi, Takeshi Imai, Kazuhiko Ohe
In Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Biomedical Ontology (ICBO 2015), Lisbon, July 27-30, 2015.
Article (PDF) , CEUR Workshop Proc. Vol.1515
Publishing a Disease Ontologies as Linked Data
Kouji Kozaki , Yuki Yamagata, Takeshi Imai, Kazuhiko Ohe, Riichiro Mizoguchi
Semantic Technology, Vol.8388 of the series Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pp.110-128, Springer, May, 21, 2014.
Article (publisher site)
Towards the Integration of Abnormality in Diseases
Yuki Yamagata, Takeshi Imai, Kazuhiko Ohe, Riichiro Mizoguchi.
In Proc. of the 5th International Conference on Biomedical Ontology (ICBO2014), Houston, USA, October 8-9, 2014.
Article (PDF), CEUR Workshop Proc., Vol.1327, pp.7-12.
An Ontological Model of Abnormal States and its Application in the Medical Domain
Yuki Yamagata, Hiroko Kou, Kouji Kozaki, Riichiro Mizoguchi, Takeshi Imai, Kazuhiko Ohe
In Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Biomedical Ontology (ICBO 2013), pp.22-27, Montreal, Canada, July 8-9, 2013.
Article (PDF), & Article (publisher site) Journal of Biomedical Semantics 5:23, 2014.
Ontological Modeling of Interoperable Abnormal States
Yuki Yamagata, Hiroko Kou, Kouji Kozaki, Riichiro Mizoguchi, Takeshi Imai, Kazuhiko Ohe
Semantic Technology, Vol.7774 of the series Lecture Notes in Computer Science pp.33-48, Springer, 2012.
Article (PDF, Osaka University) & Article (publisher site)
Identity Tracking of a Disease as a Causal Chain
Kouji Kozaki, Riichiro Mizoguchi, Takeshi Imai and Kazuhiko Ohe
In Proc. of the 3rd International Conference on Biomedical Ontology (ICBO 2012), KR-MED Series, Graz, Austria, July 21-25, 2012.
Article(PDF) , CEUR Workshop Proc. Vol.897, pp.131-136. Presentation (PPTX)
The Model of Roles within an Ontology Development Tool: Hozo
Riichiro Mizoguchi, Sunagawa E., Kouji Kozaki, and Yoshinobu Kitamura.
J. of Applied Ontology, Vol.2, No.2, pp.159-179. Sep. 2007.
Article (PDF, 616KB) & Article (publisher)

Related Works

The YAMATO Upper-level Ontology

Contact

The OWL ontology: Kouji Kozaki (kozaki@osakac.ac.jp)
The Hozo ontlogy: Riichiro Mizoguchi (mizo@jaist.ac.jp)
Philosophical dev.: Robert J. Rovetto (rrovetto@terpalum.umd.edu, rrovetto@buffalo.edu)

Last Updated by Rovetto: 2016/12/08