Grenon Pierre, Smith Barry, Goldberg Louis
Institute for Formal Ontology and Medical Information Science, University of Leipzig.
Stud Health Technol Inform. 2004;102:20-38.
We propose a modular formal ontology of the biomedical domain with two components, one for biological objects, corresponding broadly to anatomy, and one for biological processes, corresponding broadly to physiology. The result constitutes what might be described as a joint venture between two perspectives--of so-called three-dimensionalism and four-dimensionalism--which are normally regarded as incompatible. We outline an approach which allows them to be combined together, and provide examples of its application in biomedicine.
我们提出了一个生物医学领域的模块化形式本体，它有两个组成部分，一个用于生物对象，大致对应于解剖学；另一个用于生物过程，大致对应于生理学。其结果构成了一种可以说是来自两个视角——即所谓的三维主义和四维主义——的合资企业，而这两种视角通常被认为是不相容的。我们概述了一种能让它们结合在一起的方法，并给出了其在生物医学中应用的示例。
