Pérez Rocano, Wilson RodrigoLa Cruz Puente AlexandraSaquicela Galarza, Víctor HugoTello Guerrero, Marco Andrés2018-01-112018-01-112015-08-2597814244927181557170Xhttps://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84953317305&doi=10.1109%2fEMBC.2015.7318912&partnerID=40&md5=b82506213c0f0a5e71fad98de7a501f1http://dspace.ucuenca.edu.ec/handle/123456789/29191This work is a novel contribution for enriching medical images using semantic annotations with a strategy for unifying different ontologies and instances of DICOM medical files. We present the L-MOM library (Library for Mapping of Ontological Metadata) as a tool for making an automatic mapping between instances of DICOM medical files and different medical ontologies (e.g., FMA, RadLex, MeSH). The main contributions are: i) the domain independent L-MOM library which is able to integrate DICOM metadata with ontologies from different domains; ii) a strategy to automatically annotate DICOM data with universally accepted medical ontologies, and provide values of similarity between ontologies and DICOM metadata; and iii) a framework to traverse ontological concepts that characterized clinical studies of patients registered in the framework catalog.en-USArticle10.1109/EMBC.2015.7318912