Background#R##N#Despite the high coverage of biomedical ontologies, very few sound definitions of death can be found. Nevertheless, this concept has its relevance in epidemiology, such as for data integration within mortality notification systems. We here introduce an ontological representation of the complex biological qualities and processes that inhere in organisms transitioning from life to death. We further characterize them by causal processes and their temporal borders.
['Filipe Santana', 'Fred Freitas', 'Roberta Ribeiro Fernandes', 'Zulma Medeiros', 'Daniel Schober']
Towards an ontological representation of morbidity and mortality in Description Logics