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Non-invasive Respiratory Support Ontology
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January 19, 2026
| Acronym | NIRS |
| Visibility | Public |
| Description | Managing patients with respiratory failure increasingly involves non-invasive respiratory support (NIRS) strategies as alternatives to traditional ventilation methods. However, despite the rapidly expanding use of NIRS, there is a significant challenge to its best use under all medical circumstances. It lacks a unified ontological structure, complicating guidance on NIRS modalities across healthcare systems. We introduced this NIRS ontology study to support knowledge representation in acute care settings by providing a unified framework that enhances data clarity, interoperability, and clinical decision-making. We developed this NIRS ontology using the Web Ontology Language (OWL) and Protégé to organize clinical concepts and relationships. To enable rule-based clinical reasoning beyond hierarchical structures, we added Semantic Web Rule Language (SWRL) rules. We evaluated logical reasoning by adding 17 hypothetical clinical scenarios. We used SPARQL queries to retrieve and test targeted inferences. The ontology has 129 classes, 11 object properties, and 17 data properties across 886 axioms that establish concept relationships. To standardize clinical concepts, we added 361 annotations, including descriptive definitions based on controlled vocabularies. |
| Status | Production |
| Format | OWL |
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| Contact | Md Fantacher Islam ([email protected]) |
| Creation date | January 19, 2026
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| Deprecated |
false
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| Object creation date property |
http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/created
http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/created
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| Object modification date property |
http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/modified
http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/modified
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| Other identifier |
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0348199
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0348199
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| Repository |
https://github.com/vsubbian/NIRS-Ontology
https://github.com/vsubbian/NIRS-Ontology
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| Subject |
https://data.bioontology.org/categories/Health
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https://data.bioontology.org/categories/Vocabularies
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| Submission date | January 19, 2026
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| uri |
http://www.semanticweb.org/fantacher/ontologies/2025/1/nirs
http://www.semanticweb.org/fantacher/ontologies/2025/1/nirs
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