Automatic approach for constructing a knowledge graph of knee osteoarthritis in Chinese.

In this study, a medical knowledge graph is constructed from the electronic medical record text of knee osteoarthritis patients to support intelligent medical applications such as knowledge retrieval and decision support, and to promote the sharing of medical resources. After constructing the domain ontology of knee osteoarthritis and manually labeling, we trained a machine learning model to automatically perform entity recognition and entity relation extraction, and then used a graph database to construct the knowledge graph of knee osteoarthritis. The experiment proves that the knowledge graph is comprehensive and reliable, and the knowledge graph construction method proposed in this study is effective. © Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020.