Abstract

With the growing importance of dermoscopic analysis to diagnose skin diseases, the vocabulary of dermoscopy has rapidly expanded without standardized control. Many metaphoric terms are ambiguous and create barriers for general research and education. Ontologies are computable artifacts that represent and model information from a domain space that can later be leveraged by software to understand domain knowledge. We aim to standardize dermoscopic vocabulary through the introduction of two ontologies: 1. the Elements of Visuals Ontology (EVO), a foundational ontology to decompose the visual elements of physical entities; and 2. the Dermoscopy Elements of Visuals Ontology (DEVO), a domain ontology that harnesses EVO to formalize the definitions of dermoscopic metaphoric terms. We discuss how DEVO would enhance both trainee education and patient care, with the future goal of generating responses to queries about dermoscopic features and integrating these features with diagnostic rules for skin diseases.

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