Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
517253 Journal of Biomedical Informatics 2013 14 Pages PDF
Abstract

Human musculoskeletal system resources of the human body are valuable for the learning and medical purposes. Internet-based information from conventional search engines such as Google or Yahoo cannot response to the need of useful, accurate, reliable and good-quality human musculoskeletal resources related to medical processes, pathological knowledge and practical expertise. In this present work, an advanced knowledge-based personalized search engine was developed. Our search engine was based on a client–server multi-layer multi-agent architecture and the principle of semantic web services to acquire dynamically accurate and reliable HMSR information by a semantic processing and visualization approach. A security-enhanced mechanism was applied to protect the medical information. A multi-agent crawler was implemented to develop a content-based database of HMSR information. A new semantic-based PageRank score with related mathematical formulas were also defined and implemented. As the results, semantic web service descriptions were presented in OWL, WSDL and OWL-S formats. Operational scenarios with related web-based interfaces for personal computers and mobile devices were presented and analyzed. Functional comparison between our knowledge-based search engine, a conventional search engine and a semantic search engine showed the originality and the robustness of our knowledge-based personalized search engine. In fact, our knowledge-based personalized search engine allows different users such as orthopedic patient and experts or healthcare system managers or medical students to access remotely into useful, accurate, reliable and good-quality HMSR information for their learning and medical purposes.

Graphical abstractFigure optionsDownload full-size imageDownload high-quality image (196 K)Download as PowerPoint slideHighlights► First knowledge-based personalized search engine in the Biomechanics field. ► Innovative semantic web services for a knowledge-based personalized search engine. ► Security-enhanced mechanism for a search engine. ► Content-based database of the web-based human musculoskeletal system resources. ► New semantic PageRank score for ordering the Internet-based website models.

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