# Head and Neck Cancer Ontology (HENECON)

> HeNeCOn (Head and Neck Cancer Ontology) is the first ontology specifically focused on the Head...

- Page: https://library.schematica.io/model/63e43869e75441b19156e40281fc5b4b
- Model type: Ontology
- License: CC BY 4.0
- Access type: Free
- Access method: Download
- Model size: Mid
- Formats: OWL
- External link: https://bioportal.bioontology.org/ontologies/HENECON
- Contact: Estefanía Estévez Priego (eestevez@lst.tfo.upm.es)
- Listed in library: 2025-06-12
- Last updated: 2023-03-21

## Description

## Ontology Info

| Field | Value |
|-------|-------|
| Acronyme | HENECON |
| Description | HeNeCOn (Head and Neck Cancer Ontology) is the first ontology specifically focused on the Head and Neck Cancer (HNC) domain. It provides a clinically reliable data model for HNC processes during all phases of the disease: prognosis, treatment, and follow-up. The ontology is established based on an annotated dataset to provide formal reference descriptions, contains  170 clinical variables organized into a taxonomy, and is expanded and mapped to formalize and integrate multiple databases into the HeNeCOn ontology. The outcomes of this iterative process were reviewed and validated by clinicians and statisticians. HeNeCOn, with roughly 500 classes, is a very specific ontology which includes a taxonomy with a hierarchical structure, semantic definitions of 283 medical terms and detailed relations between them, which makes it a reference data model.  |
| Format | OWL |
| Categories | Health, Vocabularies, Biomedical Resources |
| Groups |  |

## Metrics

| Metric | Value |
|--------|-------|
| Classes | 1,841 |
| Individuals | 1,472 |
| Properties | 0 |
| Max Depth | 5 |
| Max Child Count | 81 |
| Average Child Count | 7 |
| Classes With One Child | 5 |
| Classes With More Than 25 Children | 12 |
| Classes With No Definition | 803 |

## Projects using HENECON

No projects using HENECON

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Source: https://library.schematica.io/model/63e43869e75441b19156e40281fc5b4b