The ExaMode ontology was developed in the context of the ExaMode project co-financed by the European Commission under the Horizon 2020 framework, which aims to to provide automatic and semi-automatic methods to improve the efficiency and the effectiveness of the diagnoses in the pathology domain with the positive effect of reducing the pathologists' workload.
The ExaMode project focuses on histopathological diagnosis of tissues with the aim of detecting diseases. We take into account the future cancer incidence and mortality burden worldwide which is predicted to be increasing (by 63% from 2018 until 2040); hence, we focus on four largely diffused and studied diseases:
Computer-aided diagnosis tools today are mostly based on data-hungry prediction algorithms. In this context data is typically composed of annotated WSIs (Whole Slide Images) for colon biopsy samples. Nevertheless, the annotation process is expensive and time-consuming. An alternative is to automatically annotate WSIs by using the medical reports related to them. ExaMode is working on automatic methods to extract key pathological concepts from the medical reports to (weakly) annotate the WSIs to be used to train prediction algorithms.
Hence, prediction algorithms can be fed by strongly (manually) annotated data as well as by weakly annotated data. The present ontology is useful in both cases by providing a common ground for identifying key concepts and the algorithms' consistent terminology.
The ExaMode ontology models the diagnosis process using WSIs in histopathology, defining the key concepts and properties to model diagnoses, the anatomical location where the disease might be located, and the procedure employed to obtain the tissue be analyzed and the tests conducted on the tissue itself. Compared to previous efforts [Serra et al., 2019; Gurcan et al., 2017], the ExaMode ontology focuses on diagnosing histopathology exams, defining components related to the annotation process of WSIs. The ontology is multilingual since components are labeled in three different languages: English, Italian, and Dutch. It comprises five semantic areas grouping components related to the same aspect of the diagnostic process: clinical case reports (i.e., general aspects), diagnosis results, other tests performed, interventions or surgical procedures employed to retrieve the specimen, and the anatomical location of the specimen. This classification provides an ontological template that can be used to model any disease in the histopathology domain. We modeled four largely diffused and studied diseases: colon cancer, uterine cervix cancer, lung cancer, and celiac disease. Thanks to the modularity of this approach, we can easily expand our ontology to include more use cases.
The ontology design followed a bottom-up approach starting from anonymized clinical reports about the four considered diseases provided by Azienda Ospedaliera per l’Emergenza Cannizzaro (AOEC) in Italy and the Radboud University Medical Center (RUMC) in The Netherlands. We analyzed these textual records and worked together with the pathologists and physicians, employing a co-design methodology to accurately identify the classes and relations to be included in the ontology. The ExaMode ontology is designed to meet the OBO principles to ease interoperability with other biomedical ontologies. Hence, we maximized the reuse of concepts defined in already available and well-known biomedical ontologies and vocabularies, thus limiting the creation of new classes and relations to a minimum.
In the following paragraphs, we better describe the four diseases covered by this ontology, their current scientific relevance, how they impact the well-being of the patients, and how the AI systems built using ExaMode can help prevent and help to diagnose them.
The estimated number of colon cancer incidence from today to 2040 will increase by up to 75%, for both sexes and all ages. The American Cancer Society (ACS) recommends regular screening for colon cancer for people over 45 years. The screening can be done either with a stool-based molecular tests or with a visual exams, so the at this stage the screening process does not include histopathological examination.
However, with the increase number of screenings, the number of cases that need further investigation or confirmation of initial findings by histopathological analysis will raise. Therefore, the colon cancer-associated workload for histopathologists will constantly and significantly increase in the next years. Cancer detection in biopsies is not very difficult for pathologists, but given the large amount of tested samples, it is very time-consuming and has a substantial impact on the histopathologist workload.
From the scientific point of view, computer-aided colon cancer diagnosis appears to be very interesting, as suggested by the number of scientific articles available in the largest research publication database. The number of cases is large and increasing, screenings are becoming more popular, and therefore the number of histopathological analyses is also increasing.
Cervical cancer is the fourth most common cancer in women, and the eight most commonly occurring cancer overall. The estimated number of cervical cancer cases is predicted to increase by 27% until 2040, regardless of the age.
Nearly all cases of uterine cervix cancer are associated with human papillomavirus (HPV) [An et al., 2005; Kurman et al., 2014]. Although there are currently vaccines that can protect against high-cancer risk types of HPV, significantly reducing the risk of cervical cancer, these vaccines are not commonly available to low- and middle-income countries, where, according to the WHO, approximatively 90% of deaths from cervical cancer occur.
There is a great demand for histopathologists who can provide the diagnosis in these countries, and their current number is not sufficient, especially in remote locations. An algorithm-based software system that could support pathologists' work in such countries would thus be very beneficial.
Even though the screening tests for cervical cancer include mainly the Pap Smear Test (Papanicolaou test) and the colposcopic examination of the cervix, the ultimate diagnosis of ambiguous and suspicious cases requires standard histopathological assessments. Algorithmic solutions can thus also help facilitate the diagnosis of cervical cancer as a final part of the screening procedure.
The average survival rate for metastatic lung cancer is very low, whereas early stages have higher survival rates. The treatment of low-stage lung cancer is complete surgical resection. Instead, for metastatic lung cancer, the surgical option is often impossible. An accurate diagnosis from lung biopsies targets the most correct prognostic and therapeutic management for the patient.
There are two main types of lung cancer: about 80-85% of lung cancers are non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), and about 10-15% are small cell lung cancer (SCLC). Therefore, the most common type of lung cancer is NSCLC, and its subtypes include squamous cell (epidermoid) carcinoma (25-30%), adenocarcinoma (40%), and large cell carcinoma (10-15%). The diagnosis between lung adenocarcinoma and squamous cell lung cancer is difficult, but it is important for further treatment. For the therapy, additional molecular tests are often needed, which cost money and require more samples to be taken during the biopsy. Therefore, an algorithm helping to distinguish between adenocarcinoma and squamous cell lung cancer could save time, biopsied tissues, and money.
The list of the diseases included in the ExaMode priority list also includes a non-cancerous illness, namely the celiac disease (CD). CD is an immune-mediated disease, with the chronic outcome and genetic predisposition to an intolerance to gluten and its proteins. It is a serious autoimmune, genetic disease where gluten ingestion leads to chronic inflammation, alterations, and damage in the small intestinal mucosa. It is estimated to affect 1 in 100 people worldwide and its prevalence has significantly increased over the past 20 years [Lohi et al., 2007]. The increase in the number of new cases is partly due to better diagnostics and screening of individuals at high risk for the disorder [Marsh, 1992]. However, it is estimated that there are far more undiagnosed cases of celiac disease than undiagnosed ones [Fasano et al., 2003].
In general, routine screening for celiac disease is not carried out. Testing is usually only recommended for people at a higher risk of developing this disease, such as those with a family history of the condition. In adults and children, the diagnosis of the celiac disease relies mainly on the presence of positive celiac disease-specific autoantibodies and further diagnostic small intestine biopsies [Fasano et al., 2001]. Intestinal biopsies are always necessary if the antibodies are low or negative, and if there are no signs/ symptoms of malabsorption. A second biopsy may be necessary if there is no clinical improvement after shifting to a strict gluten-free diet. Another biopsy is sometimes recommended in the follow-up period. Finding in the bioptic samples are characteristic, not specific, so it might be challenging for an unexperienced pathologist (and for an algorithm) to diagnose celiac disease correctly.
Considering an increasing number of new cases of celiac disease and an important role of small intestine biopsies in the diagnosis, the market size for the exploitation of product prototypes developed in ExaMode seems very promising.
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The ultimate aim of the analysis performed by a histopathologist is to complete the clinical report. A histopathological clinical report is a document that contains the results of a series of measurements and analyses performed on specific cells or tissues in order to:
The goal of this document is to define an OWL 2 ontology for the ExaMode project whose overall aim is to build predictive algorithms to help pathologist in the diagnosis of cancer cases. The starting point of ExaMode are medical diagnostic reports associated with WSIs of examined tissues.
The present ontology models the diagnostic reports associated to a (series of) WSI and enable a structured encoding of the main concepts of a diagnosis. These concepts and their relations can be used to automatically annotate WSI as well as to do some reasoning over diagnostic reports about four cases considered in the ontology.
In the following sections we provide essential information required to understand the reports of each of the four cases. Subsequently, we describe the the ontology in its different components.
The majority of colorectal cancers derives from precursor lesions which can be identified using endoscopic procedure (
Good endoscopic practice, together with an accurate histopathological diagnosis, decreases the incidence of colorectal cancer. There are different precursor lesions with different diagnostic and prognostic significance [Zauber et al., 2012]. The main task for a pathologist is to detect cancerous polyps (e.g., for population screening) and to identify the answers to these main diagnostic criteria:
This information is a prognostic factor leading to the decision about the patient's management. For example, polyps with a negative polypectomy margin, low-grade histology, and no lymphovascular invasion can be safely treated with endoscopic polypectomy. On the other hand, positive margin, high grade (poorly differentiated) histology, and lymphovascular invasion are associated with an increased risk of adverse outcomes, and surgical resection is indicated [Butte et al., 2012].
The cervical biopsy (colposcopy) is a procedure done when previous tests provide evidence of precancerous/abnormal or neoplastic lesions in the uterine cervix. The cervical tissue removed has to be analyzed by an expert pathologist to identify if the tumor lesions are present or not. If present, the pathology report provides diagnostic information and works as a prognostic tool for the patient’s treatment. Colposcopy with directed biopsy is currently one of the “gold standard” practices for diagnosing cervical pre-cancer.
Thus, the histopathologist aims to recognize and identify these precursor lesions, known as Cervical Intraepithelial Neoplasia (CIN), which displays the proliferation of atypical basaloid cells [Lax, 2011]. Based on proliferation spread, WHO classification categorizes this dysplasia into three grades:
CIN1 corresponds to Low-Grade Squamous Intraepithelial Lesion (LSIL), whereas CIN2-3 correspond to High-Grade Squamous Intraepithelial Lesion (HSIL). A strong association between these precursor lesions and HPV infection has been investigated, where LSIL is strongly associated with lowintermediate risk HPV, and HSIL is associated to high risk HPV. Therefore, the first feature that has to be identified and reported is the presence and the grade of dysplasia with possible HPV association.In the presence of cervical carcinoma we identify main microscopic features and measurements of uterine cervix colposcopy biopsy, which should be provided in the pathology report:
Also, the immunohistochemistry (p16 and Ki-67 staining) assists in the histological differential diagnosis of precursors to reactive and metaplastic epithelium. For invasive cervical carcinoma, stage is the strongest prognostic factor [Lax, 2011].
Lung cancer (LC) has a high mortality rate and is the most common cause of cancer death worldwide, accounting for 19.4% of cancer-related deaths [Travis et al., 2011]. The average overall survival rate for metastatic lung cancer is very low, whereas early stage has higher survival rates. The treatment of low-stage LC is complete surgical resection. Instead, for metastatic LC the surgical option is often impossible. An accurate diagnosis from lung biopsies targets the most correct prognostic and therapeutic management of the patients.
Moreover, a correct WHO classification is very important for metastatic tumors since there is therapeutic implication of distinguishing histological subtypes such as adenocarcinoma and squamous cell carcinoma. The identification of new therapeutic targets over the past decade resulted in an urgent need for a classification system for both non-resection specimens (particularly small biopsies) and cytology samples. For this reason an accurate and specific pathology report is important to establish diagnosis and patient’s treatment.
Starting from the analysis of lung biopsies, microscopic analysis section of the clinical report on lung cancer biopsy sample must provide the following information, with prognostic and predictive implications:
The list of the diseases included in the ExaMode priority list includes also a non-cancerous disease, namely the celiac disease (CD).
Celiac disease is an immune-mediated disease with chronic outcome and genetic predisposition to an intolerance to gluten and its proteins. This intolerance leads to an abnormal immune response, followed by chronic inflammation and alteration of the small intestinal mucosa. The diagnosis of this pathology is based on the description of the histopathological alterations of the small intestine (after duodenal biopsy) by expert pathologists [GIPAD, 2011].
Microscopic analysis of small colon biopsy sample for celiac disease provides information about:
We represent the ontology as a graph where nodes are classes and edges are typed relationships amongst the classes. Classes (nodes) represent real-world objects such as a person, a project, a tissue or an anatomical part. Relationships (edges) describe how classes interact one with the other. In ExaMode we limit the creation of new classes to a minimum and we re-use existing ontologies as much as possible.
The EXAMODE ontology The ExaMode ontology is organized into five semantic areas, each concerning different aspects of the histopathology process.:
In the following sections we discuss in detail the semantic areas, dividing them by disease when necessary.
The central class of this part of the ontology is Clinical Case Report. All the medical reports modeled through this ontology are part of this class that can be instantiated for specific cases such as the Colon Clinical Case Report. Each clinical case is associated to one Disease, a general class which represent one disease. In this ontology, more specifically, a Disease is then instantiated in one of the four diseases considered in Examode, that is Cervical Cancer, Lung Cancer, Colon Carcinoma, and celiac Disease. The image above represents a case of Colon Clinical Case Report, thus the class is associated with the Colon Carcinoma disease through the isAboutDisease relationship. Each Clinical Case Report presents a unique identifier, obtained through the clinical cases, and a diagnosis, i.e. the text in the "Diagnosis" field found in the reports. Each medical report can also be related to an image file about the report. The block number refers to internal ids related to the reports or the images.
All medical reports are associated with a Patient (anonymized), since a single patient can have more than one associated medical report. We model minimal patient information: age at the time of the report, gender and an age onset to classify the patients into three categories: young adult, middle age and late.
All medical reports are also associated with the Organization that produced it. In EXAMODE there are two organizations: the Cannizzaro Hospital (AOEC) in Italy and the Radboud University Medical Center (RUMC) in the Netherlands.
The diagnosis is the central area of the EXAMODE ontology. Even though the structure of this semantic area differs from disease to disease, certain classes are shared. In particular, each medical report is connected to an Outcome. The Outcome class represents a general outcome that be positive (PositiveOutcome), negative (NegativeOutcome), without the evidence of malignancy (NoMalignancy), and inconclusive (InconclusiveOutcome) that, in turns, can be due to the presence of insufficient material (InsufficientMaterial) to reach a conclusion or to an unsatisfactory specimen for a diagnosis (SpecimenUnsatisfactory). Positive outcomes describe the type of cancer or disease that has been diagnosed in the examined specimen and it can be associated with additional information for some types of diseases. For instance, in the colon cancer use case, if the specimen has been diagnosed as "Polyp of Colon" or any of its subclasses, we might have additional information about the degree of dysplasia the polyp presents. We refer to this additional data as "Annotations to the Case" and we modeled them as subclasses of the general-purpose class called "Finding".
The figure above represents the structure of the ontology for the Uterine Cervix Cancer. For cervical cancer, in the diagnosis, indipendently of its type, one could detect the presence of koilocytes, or the specimen could test positive for HPV. We note that a case of cervix cancer does not present possibilities for annotations.
The figure above describe the structure of the diagnosis area for the lung cancer. In this case, the patient, when positive, may present Sarcoidosis, Lymphadenitis or Lung Carcinoma (and its possible subclasses). In the case of Lung Carcinoma or any of its subclasses, there may be additional information regarding the presence of necrosis or metastasis.
For the diagnosis of the celiac disease, as described in the image above, the outcome is fairly simpler that the one of the other three diseases: if the patient is posivite, s/he can either have the celiac disease or Duodenitis (an inflammation which does not necessarily imply celiac disease). The outcome may be correlated with the information about the Immunohistochemical Test carried on the patient.
In this case, a positive outcome can be enriched with information about the presence of immune cells such as granulocytes or lymphocytes, the presence of intestinal abnormalities such as edema or intestinal fibrosis, or data about the villi status, such as their atrophy degree or length. All components modeling such information are grouped in the "Annotations to the Case" area.
As shown above, the Examode Ontology comprises three other semantic areas, here presented for the case of the colon cancer, i.e. the Procedure and the Anatomical Location. The former details the surgical procedure performed to collect the tissue; the latter represents an anatomical location, that can be both the area from where the tissue was taken, or where the disease is located in the patient. We also modeled the Test area, which comprises other test performed.
In the case of the colon, the performed procedure can only be a surgical procedure which, in turn, can be a resection, an anastomosis, a hemiectomy or a form of Endoscopic Biopsy.
The contemplated anatomical location are the different areas of the colon. The class Colon, NOS (Not Otherwise Specified) describes a general area of the colon, and can be better specified by one of its subclasses. Other locations included in this area that are not in the Colon are the Rectum, the Abdomen and the Ileum.
In this case, the possible procedures include the cervical biopsy, an hysterectomy (and its specifications), and different types of surgical procedures, including conization and endocervical curettage.
The locations where the cancer can be located and the tissues be withdrawn include the uterus, the cervix epitelium and its different parts, and the cervical mucus.
In the case of the lung cancer, the possible procedures include different types of Biopsies. It is also possible to perform different types of immunohistochemical tests, that can usually return a true/false result or a numerical one, in the case of the test on the proliferation marker protein Ki-67.
The locations for the lung cancer include the whole lung, the bronchus and their parts, the mediastinum and the Thoracic lymph nodes.
In the case of the celiac disease the surgical procedure can be a form of biopsy, performed in different locations (a biopsy in the greater curvature, a biopsy in the pyloric antrum and one in the duodenum). As such, these cases are naturally connected to their locations.
The anatomical locations for the celiac disease include the Duodenum and its different parts, where the disease is located. Since the biopsy that allows to diagnose the disease can also be performed in the pyloric antrum and the greater curvature, they are included among the locations.
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IRI: http://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/core#narrower
IRI: http://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/core#narrowMatch
IRI: http://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/core#narrowerTransitive
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IRI: https://w3id.org/examode/ontology/hasOutcome
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IRI: https://w3id.org/examode/ontology/hasSlide
IRI: https://w3id.org/examode/ontology/hasTest
IRI: http://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/core#hasTopConcept
IRI: https://w3id.org/examode/ontology/inconclusiveType
IRI: https://w3id.org/examode/ontology/isAboutDisease
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IRI: http://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/core#mappingRelation
IRI: http://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/core#inScheme
IRI: http://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/core#semanticRelation
IRI: http://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/core#topConceptOf
IRI: http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/made
IRI: http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/maker
IRI: https://w3id.org/examode/ontology/positiveType
IRI: https://w3id.org/examode/ontology/presenceOf
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IRI: https://w3id.org/examode/ontology/villiAbsence
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IRI: https://w3id.org/examode/ontology/duodenitisSeverity
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IRI: https://w3id.org/examode/ontology/villiStatus
IRI: https://w3id.org/examode/ontology/hasAge
IRI: https://w3id.org/examode/ontology/hasBlockNumber
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IRI: https://w3id.org/examode/ontology/hasFlatVilli
IRI: https://w3id.org/examode/ontology/hasImage
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IRI: https://w3id.org/examode/ontology/hasInternalIdentifier
IRI: https://w3id.org/examode/ontology/outcome
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IRI: https://w3id.org/examode/ontology/hasSlideDiagnosis
IRI: https://w3id.org/examode/ontology/hasSlideId
IRI: https://w3id.org/examode/ontology/testResult
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IRI: https://w3id.org/examode/ontology/hasDiagnosisText
IRI: https://w3id.org/examode/ontology/hasValue
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IRI: http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/identifier
IRI: https://w3id.org/examode/ontology/hasIEL
IRI: https://w3id.org/examode/ontology/MarshStage
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IRI: http://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/core#notation
IRI: https://w3id.org/examode/ontology/mitosisPerCrypt
IRI: https://w3id.org/examode/ontology/villiAtrophy
IRI: https://w3id.org/examode/ontology/hasVillusCryptRatio
IRI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/NCIT_P325
IRI: http://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/core#altLabel
Acronyms, abbreviations, spelling variants, and irregular plural/singular forms may be included among the alternative labels for a concept. Mis-spelled terms are normally included as hidden labels (see skos:hiddenLabel).
IRI: https://w3id.org/examode/ontology/annotatedRule
IRI: https://w3id.org/examode/ontology/associatedDisease
IRI: https://w3id.org/examode/ontology/associatedKeywordInDiagnosis
IRI: https://w3id.org/examode/ontology/associatedKeywordInMateriali
IRI: http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#cardinality
IRI: http://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/core#changeNote
IRI: http://purl.org/dc/terms/conformsTo
IRI: http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/creator
IRI: http://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/core#definition
IRI: https://w3id.org/examode/ontology/definition
IRI: http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/description
IRI: http://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/core#editorialNote
IRI: http://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/core#example
IRI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/UBPROP_0000001
IRI: http://www.geneontology.org/formats/oboInOwl#hasBroadSynonym
IRI: http://www.geneontology.org/formats/oboInOwl#hasExactSynonym
IRI: https://w3id.org/examode/ontology/hasOntobeeAnnotation
IRI: http://www.geneontology.org/formats/oboInOwl#hasRelatedSynonym
IRI: https://w3id.org/examode/ontology/hasSemanticArea
IRI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/NCIT_P106
IRI: https://w3id.org/examode/ontology/hasSNOMEDCode
IRI: http://www.geneontology.org/formats/oboInOwl#hasSynonym
IRI: http://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/core#historyNote
IRI: https://w3id.org/examode/ontology/internalNotes
IRI: http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#maxCardinality
IRI: http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#minCardinality
IRI: http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/name
IRI: http://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/core#note
IRI: http://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/core#prefLabel
IRI: http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/rights
IRI: http://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/core#scopeNote
IRI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/UBPROP_0000010
IRI: https://w3id.org/examode/ontology/taxonNotes
IRI: http://www.w3.org/2003/06/sw-vocab-status/ns#term_status
IRI: http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/title
IRI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/UBERON_0000916
IRI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/NCIT_C35265
IRI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/NCIT_C2852
IRI: https://hpo.jax.org/app/browse/term/HP:0003581
IRI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/NCIT_C15609
IRI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/NCIT_C13717
IRI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/UBERON_0001165
IRI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/UBERON_0001156
IRI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/MONDO_0001932
IRI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/NCIT_C51678
IRI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/NCIT_C51683
IRI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/NCIT_C51902
IRI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/NCIT_C51600
IRI: https://w3id.org/examode/ontology/GreaterCurvatureBiopsy
IRI: https://w3id.org/examode/ontology/AntrumPyloriBiopsy
IRI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/NCIT_C51782
IRI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/UBERON_0002185
IRI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/NCIT_C135565
IRI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/UBERON_0001153
IRI: https://w3id.org/examode/ontology/Cannizzaro_Hospital
IRI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/MONDO_0005130
IRI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/NCIT_C4029
IRI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/NCIT_C4520
IRI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/NCIT_C51628
IRI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/MONDO_0002974
IRI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/MONDO_0005131
IRI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/MONDO_0022394
IRI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/MONDO_0006137
IRI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/UBERON_0000316
IRI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/MONDO_0000751
IRI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/UBERON_0012253
IRI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/MONDO_0006143
IRI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/NCIT_C40198
IRI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/NCIT_C26716
IRI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/UBERON_0004801
IRI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/UBERON_0012250
IRI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/UBERON_0006922
IRI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/NCIT_C82901
IRI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/NCIT_C27057
IRI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/NCIT_C174450
IRI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/NCIT_C26723
IRI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/NCIT_C4349
IRI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/MONDO_0002032
IRI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/NCIT_C4847
IRI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/UBERON_0001155
IRI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/NCIT_C51688
IRI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/UBERON_0012652
IRI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/NCIT_C2960
IRI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/NCIT_C15402
IRI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/NCIT_C2965
IRI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/UBERON_0013482
IRI: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7307-4607
IRI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/UBERON_0001158
IRI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/NCIT_C15220
IRI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/UBERON_0013644
IRI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/UBERON_0008346
IRI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/UBERON_0001212
IRI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/UBERON_0015834
IRI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/UBERON_0000320
IRI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/UBERON_0002114
IRI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/NCIT_C62570
IRI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/NCIT_C3002
IRI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/NCIT_C4245
IRI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/NCIT_C15403
IRI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/NCIT_C12313
IRI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/NCIT_C15389
IRI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/NCIT_C12585
IRI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/NCIT_C12532
IRI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/NCIT_C50443
IRI: https://www.examode.eu/
IRI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/UBERON_0012251
IRI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/NCIT_C16576
IRI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/NCIT_C82967
IRI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/NCIT_C7029
IRI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/NCIT_C8361
IRI: https://w3id.org/examode/ontology/general
IRI: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4970-4554
IRI: https://w3id.org/examode/ontology/glandularAtrophy
IRI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/NCIT_C12530
IRI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/NCIT_C3064
IRI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/UBERON_0001164
IRI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/NCIT_C86074
IRI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/NCIT_C156083
IRI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/MONDO_0005161
IRI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/NCIT_C50588
IRI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/NCIT_C35541
IRI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/NCIT_C15256
IRI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/UBERON_0002116
IRI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/NCIT_C3137
IRI: https://w3id.org/examode/ontology/insufficientMaterial
IRI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/MP_0011748
IRI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/NCIT_C8360
IRI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/UBERON_0008342
IRI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/UBERON_0002115
IRI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/NCIT_C36808
IRI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/NCIT_C32918
IRI: https://hpo.jax.org/app/browse/term/HP:0003584
IRI: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0676-682X
IRI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/UBERON_0008971
IRI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/FMA_7432
IRI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/NCIT_C32968
IRI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/FMA_7423
IRI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/NCIT_C12529
IRI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/NCIT_C32998
IRI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/NCIT_C51760
IRI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/NCIT_C40196
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IRI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/NCIT_C12284
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IRI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/NCIT_C19151
IRI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/NCIT_C4124
IRI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/NCIT_C160819
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IRI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/NCIT_C8362
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IRI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/GO_0070265
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IRI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/BTO_0002073
IRI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/UBERON_0000977
IRI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/NCIT_C25349
IRI: https://w3id.org/examode/ontology/procedure
IRI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/UBERON_0035764
IRI: http://dbpedia.org/page/Radboud_University_Nijmegen
IRI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/NCIT_C94470
IRI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/UBERON_0003346
IRI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/UBERON_0036214
IRI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/UBERON_0001052
IRI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/NCIT_C158758
IRI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/UBERON_0008972
IRI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/FMA_7404
IRI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/NCIT_C33486
IRI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/FMA_7397
IRI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/MONDO_0019338
IRI: https://w3id.org/examode/ontology/SevereColonDysplasia
IRI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/NCIT_C8364
IRI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/UBERON_0001159
IRI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/NCIT_C33554
IRI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/UBERON_0002108
IRI: https://w3id.org/examode/ontology/SpecimenUnsatisfactory
IRI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/MONDO_0004693
IRI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/MONDO_0042487
IRI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/NCIT_C3237
IRI: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0362-5893
IRI: https://w3id.org/examode/ontology/test
IRI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/UBERON_0007644
IRI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/NCIT_C82971
IRI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/NCIT_C51695
IRI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/UBERON_0001157
IRI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/NCIT_C3426
IRI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/UBERON_0000995
IRI: https://hpo.jax.org/app/browse/term/HP:0011462
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