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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
Projects:
- Foundational Model of
Anatomy Ontology (FMA)
- Ontology
Views
- Ontology
of Physics in Biology
- FMA-RadLex
Past Projects:
Collaborations:
- National Center for Biomedical Ontology (NCBO)
- National Center for
Ontological Research (NCOR)
- Open Biological Ontologies (OBO) Foundry
- RadLex/RSNA
- Virtual Physiological Human, European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI)
- Protege Knowledge Modeling Group, Stanford Medical Informatics
- National
Cancer Institute Center for Bioinformatics (NCICB)
- Unified
Medical Language System (UMLS), National Library of Medicine (NLM)
- New York State Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics and Life Sciences (CoE)
- Terminologia Anatomica,
Federative International Committee on
Anatomical Terminology (FICAT)
- Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology,
Selected
publications:
Kalet I, Mejino JLV, Wang V, Whipple M, Brinkley JF. (2009) Content-specific auditing of a Large Scale Anatomy Ontology. J. Biomed. Inform. In press.
Gennari JH, Neal ML, Mejino JLV, Cook DL (2009) Using Multiple Reference Ontologies: Managing semantic annotations and ontology cross products. International Conference on Biomedical Ontology (ICBO), Buffalo, NY. In press.
Mejino JLV, Rubin DL, Brinkley JF (2008) FMA-RadLex: An Application Ontology of Radiological Anatomy derived from the Foundational Model of Anatomy Reference Ontology. In Proceedings, American Medical Informatics Association Fall Symposium, pages pp. 465-469, Washington, DC.
Cook DL, Mejino JLV, Neal ML, Gennari JH (2008) Bridging Biological Ontologies and Biosimulation: the Ontology of Physics for Biology. In Proceedings, American Medical Informatics Association Fall Symposium, pages pp. 136-140, Washington, DC
Franklin JD and Mejino JLV, Detwiler LT, Rubin DL, Brinkley JF (2008) Web Service Access to Semantic Web Ontologies for Data Annotation. In Proceedings, American Medical Informatics Association Fall Symposium, pages 946, Washington, DC.
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,
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,
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,
- 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,
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
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