Ontology for Nutritional Promotion in Cancer Patients
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.14456/jiskku.2023.11Keywords:
Ontology, Nutrition, Cancer patientsAbstract
Purpose: The purposes of this study were to develop and to evaluate the ontology for promoting nutrition in cancer patients.
Methodology: The research employed a research and development approach, consisting of three steps: ontology requirements specification, ontology design and development, and ontology evaluation.
Findings: The developed ontology was evaluated by experts, and the results indicated that it was highly appropriate overall and in all aspects. Furthermore, the ontology was assessed using the Ontology Pitfall Scanner, and no critical pitfalls were detected. In addition, the information retrieval was effectively evaluated using SPARQL, with precision, recall, and F-measure averages of 1.00.
Applications of this study: The developed ontology can be used as a knowledge base for developing information retrieval system or personalized food and nutrition recommendation system for cancer patients. It can be valuable for healthcare providers in planning the nutritional needs of cancer patients.
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