Ontology-Driven Decision Making for Subfertility of Female

Abstract

Abstract -

Failure to conceive after 12 months of unprotected and regular sexual intercourse is called as subfertility. In the medical domain, at first, males are checked for subfertility causes. Then, females need to check for their subfertility cause. Here, female subfertility is a vast area than male subfertility. So, it`s difficult to take decision making. So, ontology will help to make decisions to diagnose the cause and treatment method for causes in subfertility. Subfertility of female Information collected from the Doctors, Medical Students, and Books in the very first stage. After that, started to develop ontology and implemented using Protégé OWL Ontology Editor 5.5 was used for this purpose. Finally, the developed ontology was evaluated in two ways; by using inbuilt tools and by ontology experts as an iterative approach. This approach to subfertility of female ontology can support the medical students, doctors moreover their assistants to enhance their knowledge and helpful in decision-making

Keywords subfertility, ontology, decision support