Schulz Stefan, Daumke Philipp, Smith Barry, Hahn Udo
Department of Medical Informatics, Freiburg University Hospital, Germany.
AMIA Annu Symp Proc. 2005;2005:669-73.
The pivotal role of the relation part-of in the description of living organisms is widely acknowledged. Organisms are open systems, which means that in contradistinction to mechanical artifacts they are characterized by a continuous flow and exchange of matter. A closer analysis of the spatial relations in biological organism reveals that the decision as to whether a given particular is part-of a second particular or whether it is only contained-in the second particular may often be controversial. We here propose a rule-based approach which allows us to decide on the basis of well-defined criteria which of the two relations holds between two anatomical objects, given that one spatially includes the other. We discuss the advantages and limitations of this approach, using concrete examples from human anatomy.
“部分-整体”关系在生物体描述中所起的关键作用已得到广泛认可。生物体是开放系统，这意味着与机械制品不同，它们的特征是物质的持续流动和交换。对生物有机体空间关系的进一步分析表明，对于某一特定事物是另一特定事物的一部分还是仅仅包含于另一特定事物的判断，往往可能存在争议。在此，我们提出一种基于规则的方法，在已知一个解剖对象在空间上包含另一个解剖对象的情况下，该方法能让我们依据明确的标准来判定这两个解剖对象之间存在上述两种关系中的哪一种。我们将通过人体解剖学的具体实例来探讨这种方法的优缺点。
