Anatomical informatics: relating detail of the parts to the function of the whole

Abstract

Anatomy is foundational to the practice of medicine and likewise, anatomical informatics serves as an underpinning for biomedical informatics. The objective of this presentation is to present a critical analysis of the state of anatomical informatics as it exists today and has been applied in specialty areas of medicine and biology. Our challenge today is to strengthen this anatomical footing through the development and standardization of rules and relationships, compatible with the digital world, that can serve the needs of the emerging discipline of Clinical and Translational Science. Ontologies, such as the Rosse's Foundational Model of Anatomy, provide general methods and pathways for specifying relationships but there is still much work to be done in extending current relationships to fully envelop the regions and systems of gross anatomy and to develop relationships and connections between anatomy, development, evolution, function and dysfunction. Specifics of coding and searching anatomical data from the classical laboratory, the Visible Human, patient data and radiological imaging will be used to illustrate the problems and opportunities for anatomical informatics research.

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