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Last published 2025
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Christopher Ochs

Federal Grant PI

Researcher

Faculty Researcher

14 h-index 42 pubs 539 cited

  • Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine
  • Biological Ontologies
  • Vocabulary, Controlled
  • Humans
  • Classification
  • Quality Control
  • Software
  • Subject Headings
  • Quality Assurance, Health Care
  • Terminology as Topic
  • Knowledge Bases
  • Semantics
  • Drug Interactions
  • Neoplasms
  • Comprehension

Biography and Research Information

OverviewAI-generated summary

Christopher Ochs' research focuses on the development and application of ontologies and controlled vocabularies within the health sciences. He has published on topics such as the visual comprehension and orientation into the COVID-19 CIDO ontology and guidelines for the reuse of ontology content. Ochs also serves as PI on a grant from the NIH/National Institute of General Medical Sciences for the Trauma Institutional Priorities and Teams for Outcome Efficacy (TIPTOE) project, totaling $454,259.

His work involves the systematic organization and classification of medical information, contributing to improved data quality and accessibility in healthcare. Ochs leads a research group and has collaborated with researchers like Mathias Brochhausen on shared publications. His scholarship metrics include an h-index of 14, with 42 total publications and 539 total citations.

Metrics

  • h-index: 14
  • Publications: 42
  • Citations: 539

Selected Publications

  • ReGraph: Learning to Reformulate Graph Encodings with Large Language Models (2025)
  • Guidelines for the reuse of ontology content (2023)
    Applied Ontology 7 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Visual comprehension and orientation into the COVID-19 CIDO ontology (2021)
    Journal of Biomedical Informatics 5 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Overlapping Complex Concepts Have More Commission Errors, Especially in Intensive Terminology Auditing. (2018)
    PubMed 2 citations OpenAlex
  • Quality assurance of ontology content reuse (2018)
  • Complex overlapping concepts: An effective auditing methodology for families of similarly structured BioPortal ontologies (2018)
    Journal of Biomedical Informatics 5 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Summarizing an Ontology: A "Big Knowledge" Coverage Approach. (2017)
    PubMed 4 citations OpenAlex
  • Applications of the Ontology Abstraction Framework. (2017)
    AMIA OpenAlex
  • Real time summarization and visualization of ontology change in Protégé (2017)
    3 citations OpenAlex
  • Taxonomy-Based Approaches to Quality Assurance of Ontologies (2017)
    Journal of Healthcare Engineering 5 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Multi-layer Big Knowledge Visualization Scheme for Comprehending Neoplasm Ontology Content (2017)
    3 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Quality assurance of chemical ingredient classification for the National Drug File – Reference Terminology (2017)
    Journal of Biomedical Informatics 6 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • An empirical analysis of ontology reuse in BioPortal (2017)
    Journal of Biomedical Informatics 41 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • From SNOMED CT to Uberon: Transferability of evaluation methodology between similarly structured ontologies (2017)
    Artificial Intelligence in Medicine 11 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Relating Complexity and Error Rates of Ontology Concepts (2017)
    Methods of Information in Medicine 11 citations DOI OpenAlex

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Federal Grants 1 $454,259 total

NIH Contact PI Mar 2015 - May 2026

Trauma Institutional Priorities and Teams for Outcome Efficacy (TIPTOE)

National Institute of General Medical Sciences $454,259 R01

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