# Project Rosetta: A Childhood Social, Emotional, and Behavioral Developmental Ontology

## TL;DR

Project Rosetta developed an extensive ontology of childhood behavioral assessment questions, enabling concise, comprehensive instruments and improved data integration for clinical and research applications.

## Contribution

It introduces a novel ontology mapping over 1,200 questions from existing instruments into 209 unified questions, enhancing assessment efficiency and data interoperability.

## Key findings

- Mapped 1274 questions to 209 Rosetta questions
- Created a minimal, comprehensive set of assessment questions
- Facilitated more robust clinical and research datasets

## Abstract

There is a wide array of existing instruments used to assess childhood behavior and development for the evaluation of social, emotional and behavioral disorders. Many of these instruments either focus on one diagnostic category or encompass a broad set of childhood behaviors. We built an extensive ontology of the questions associated with key features that have diagnostic relevance for child behavioral conditions, such as Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), and anxiety, by incorporating a subset of existing child behavioral instruments and categorizing each question into clinical domains. Each existing question and set of question responses were then mapped to a new unique Rosetta question and set of answer codes encompassing the semantic meaning and identified concept(s) of as many existing questions as possible. This resulted in 1274 existing instrument questions mapping to 209 Rosetta questions creating a minimal set of questions that are comprehensive of each topic and subtopic. This resulting ontology can be used to create more concise instruments across various ages and conditions, as well as create more robust overlapping datasets for both clinical and research use.