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Radiology’s Hashtag Ontology
In January of 2015, after collaboration among 17 individuals (including radiologists, patients, radiation oncologists, and industry representatives), the Radiology hashtag ontology was created (Table 1). This is similar to work that has been done in other specialties, most notably oncology [5]. The radiology ontology is an initiative aimed at codifying a list of hashtags that people interested in issues affecting radiology can use to tag social media content so that it may be discovered by
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