TY - JOUR AU - Dhombres, Ferdinand; Charlet, Jean; Section Editors for the IMIA Yearbook Section on Knowledge Representation and Management TI - As Ontologies Reach Maturity, Artificial Intelligence Starts Being Fully Efficient: Findings from the Section on Knowledge Representation and Management for the Yearbook 2018 SN - 0943-4747 SN - 2364-0502 PY - 2018 JO - Yearb Med Inform JF - Yearbook of Medical Informatics LA - EN VL - 27 IS - 01 SP - 140 EP - 145 DA - 2018/08/29 KW - Knowledge representation (computer) KW - biomedical ontologies KW - controlled vocabularies KW - decision support systems, clinical KW - information storage and retrieval KW - data integration AB - Objectives: To select, present, and summarize the best papers published in 2017 in the field of Knowledge Representation and Management (KRM).Methods: A comprehensive and standardized review of the medical informatics literature was performed to select the most interesting papers of KRM published in 2017, based on a PubMed query.Results: In direct line with the research on data integration presented in the KRM section of the 2017 edition of the International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA) Yearbook, the five best papers for 2018 demonstrate even further the added-value of ontology-based integration approaches for phenotype-genotype association mining. Additionally, among the 15 preselected papers, two aspects of KRM are in the spotlight: the design of knowledge bases and new challenges in using ontologies.Conclusions: Ontologies are demonstrating their maturity to integrate medical data and begin to support clinical practices. New challenges have emerged: the query on distributed semantically annotated datasets, the efficiency of semantic annotation processes, the semantic representation of large textual datasets, the control of biases associated with semantic annotations, and the computation of Bayesian indicators on data annotated with ontologies. PB - Georg Thieme Verlag KG DO - 10.1055/s-0038-1667078 UR - http://www.thieme-connect.com/products/ejournals/abstract/10.1055/s-0038-1667078 ER -