Developing a Physical Activity Ontology to Support the Interoperability of Physical Activity Data.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Physical activity data provides important information on disease onset, progression, and treatment outcomes. Although analyzing physical activity data in conjunction with other clinical and microbiological data will lead to new insights crucial for improving human health, it has been hampered partly because of the large variations in the way the data are collected and presented.

Objective

The aim of this study was to develop a Physical Activity Ontology (PACO) to support structuring and standardizing heterogeneous descriptions of physical activities.

Methods

We prepared a corpus of 1140 unique sentences collected from various physical activity questionnaires and scales as well as existing standardized terminologies and ontologies. We extracted concepts rele

SUBMITTER: Kim H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6658272 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature