AsdKB: A Chinese Knowledge Base for the Early Screening and Diagnosis of Autism Spectrum Disorder

TL;DR

AsdKB is a comprehensive Chinese knowledge base on autism spectrum disorder designed to facilitate early screening and diagnosis through integrated ontological and factual data from multiple sources.

Contribution

We developed AsdKB, a novel Chinese knowledge base combining diverse autism-related knowledge sources to support diagnosis and screening applications.

Findings

Enables question answering and expert recommendation

Supports auxiliary diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder

Accessible as Linked Data for integration and use

Abstract

To easily obtain the knowledge about autism spectrum disorder and help its early screening and diagnosis, we create AsdKB, a Chinese knowledge base on autism spectrum disorder. The knowledge base is built on top of various sources, including 1) the disease knowledge from SNOMED CT and ICD-10 clinical descriptions on mental and behavioural disorders, 2) the diagnostic knowledge from DSM-5 and different screening tools recommended by social organizations and medical institutes, and 3) the expert knowledge on professional physicians and hospitals from the Web. AsdKB contains both ontological and factual knowledge, and is accessible as Linked Data at https://w3id.org/asdkb/. The potential applications of AsdKB are question answering, auxiliary diagnosis, and expert recommendation, and we illustrate them with a prototype which can be accessed at http://asdkb.org.cn/.