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Jose Leonardo Villaraza Mejino Jr., M.D.

Structural Informatics Group
Digital Anatomist Program
Department of Biological Structure
School of Medicine
University of Washington
Seattle, Washington 98195

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Selected publications:

Mejino JLV, Martin RF, Detwiler LT, and Brinkley JF. (2007) Challenges in reconciling different views of neuronanatomy in a reference ontology of anatomy. Proc. AMIA Symp. 2007.

Rosse C, Mejino JLV (2007). The Foundational Model of Anatomy Ontology. In: Burger, A. Davidson, Baldock R. (eds), Anatomy Ontologies for Bioinformatics: Principles and Practice, Volume 6 Pages 59-117, London: Springer.

Haendel M, Neuhaus F, Sutherland JLE, Mejino Jr. JLV, Mungall C and Smith B. (2007). The common anatomy reference ontology. In: Burger, A. Davidson, Baldock R. (eds), Anatomy Ontologies for Bioinformatics: Principles and Practice, New York: Springer, in press.

Cook DL, Mejino JLV, Emmi A and Bookstein F. (2007). Physical manifestations of biological processes. J. Applied Ontology. Submitted.

Cook DL, Neal M, Mejino JLV, Gennari J, and Brinkley JF. (2007). ApplModel Ontology (AMO): Reusable, customized views of biological knowledge and data resources. Proc. AMIA Symp. 2007.

Rosse C, Kumar A, Mejino JLV, Cook DL, Detwiler LT, and Smith B. (2005) A strategy for improving and integrating biomedical ontologies. Proc AMIA Symp 2005.

Smith B, Mejino JLV, Schulz S, Kumar A, and Rosse C. (2005) Anatomical information science. COSIT ’05, Ellicottville, New York.

Shapiro L, Chung E, Detwiler LT, Mejino JLV, Agoncillo AV, Brinkley JF, and Rosse C. (2005) Processes and problems in the formative evaluation of the Foundational Model of Anatomy knowledge base. JAMIA 12 (1):35-46.

Mejino, J.L.V. and Rosse, C. (2004). Symbolic modeling of structural relationships in the Foundational Model of Anatomy. In Proceedings, First International Workshop on Formal Biomedical Knowledge Representation (KR-MED 2004), pp48-62, Whistler Mountain, BC, Canada.

Cook DL, Mejino JLV, and Rosse C. (2004) Evolution of a Foundational Model of Physiology: Symbolic representation for functional bioinformatics. In Proceedings, MedInfo 2004, pp. 336-340, San Francisco, California.

Noy NF, Musen MA, Mejino JLV, Rosse C.(2004) Pushing the Envelope: Challenges in a Frame-Based Representation of Human Anatomy. Data and Knowledge Engineering 48:335-359.

Rosse, C. and Mejino, J. L. V. (2003) A Reference Ontology for Bioinformatics: The Foundational Model of Anatomy. Journal of Biomedical Informatics 36:478-500..

Mejino, J. L. V. and Agoncillo, A. V. and Rickard, K. L. and Rosse, C. (2003) Representing Complexity in Part-Whole Relationships within the Foundational Model of Anatomy. Proc AMIA Symp 2003.

Detwiler, L. T. and Mejino, J. L. V. and Rosse, C. and Brinkley, J. F. (2003) Efficient Web-Based Navigation of the Foundational Model of Anatomy. Proc AMIA Symp 2003.

Mejino JLV, Noy NF, Musen M, Rosse C. (2001) Representation of structural relationships in the Foundational Model of Anatomy. Proc AMIA Symp 2001:973.

Michael, J. and Mejino, J. L. V. and Rosse, C. (2001) The Role of Definitions in Biomedical Concept Representation. Proc AMIA Symp. 2001:463-467.

Martin RF, Mejino JLV, Bowden DM, Brinkley JF, Rosse C. Foundational model of neuroanatomy: its implications for the Human Brain Project. Proc AMIA Symp 2001:438-442.

Rosse C, Mejino JLV, Shapiro LG, Brinkley JF. Visible Human, know thyself: The Digital anatomist Strucutral Abstraction. In: The Third Visible Human Project Conference Proceedings, Bethesda: NLM, 2000; 27-28.

Brinkley JF, Albright EM, Kim S, Mejino JLV, Shapiro LG, Rosse C. (2000) Visible Human, Construct Thyself: The Digital Anatomist Dynamic Scene Generator. In: The Third Visible Human Project Conference Proceedings. Bethesda: NLM, 2000;27-28.

Mejino, JLV, Jr.,MD and C. Rosse, MD, DSc. (1999) Conceptualizations of Anatomical Spatial Entities in the Digital Anatomist Foundational Model. Proceedings AMIA'99 Fall Symposium.

Agoncillo, AV, MD, JLV Mejino Jr., MD, and C. Rosse, MD, DSc. (1999) Influence of the Digital Anatomist Foundational Model on Traditional Representations of Anatomical Concepts. Proceedings AMIA'99 Fall Symposium.

Mejino, JLV, Jr.,MD and C. Rosse, MD, DSc. (1998) The Potential of the Digital Anatomist Foundational Model for Assuring Consistency in UMLS Sources. J Am Med Inform Assoc.AMIA'98 Symp. Suppl 1998;825-829.

Rosse, C, MD, DSc, JLV Mejino Jr., MD, BR Modayur, PhD, R. Jakobovits, K. Hinshaw, JF Brinkley, MD, PhD. (1998) Motivation and organizational principles for anatomical knowledge representation: The Digital Anatomist Symbolic Knowledge Base. JAMIA 5:1 pp17-40.

Links of interest:

Interactive Atlas of Thoracic Viscera. Department of Biological Structure, University of Washington.
Bioportal. National Center for Biomedical Ontology, Stanford University
RadLex. Radiological Society of North America (RSNA), Radiology lexicon.
BIRNLex. Biomedical Informatics Research Network (BIRN) lexicon
Interactive Radiology Exercises. Department of Biological Structure, University of Washington
Radiology Webserver, Department of Radiology, University of Washington. Visit the Anatomy Teaching Modules
Thoracic Radiology, University of Michigan.
Introduction to Clinical Disciplines Medicine:Radiology, The Virtual Hospital, University of Iowa.
The Visible Human Project, National Library of Medicine.
Human Embryology, Churchill Livingstone Inc.
Surgical Planning Laboratory (SPL), Department of Radiology, Harvard Medical School.

Current and former members of the Structural Informatics Group (SIG)

From left: Andrew Poliakov, Kevin Hinshaw, August Agoncillo, Onard Mejino (standing)

From left: Bill Barker, Kevin Hinshaw, Onard Mejino, Cornelius Rosse, Eider Moore, Raven Travillian, Kurt Rickard, Todd Detwiler, Richard Martin, Chris Grierson and August Agoncillo

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Form left, standing: Dipi, Lisa, August and Greg

From left, sitting: Eider, Onard, Kirk, Todd and Chris