Designing a sub-set of the UMLS knowledge base applied to a clinical domain: methods and evaluation.
The UMLS is a complex collection of interconnected biomedical concepts derived from standard nomenclatures. Designing a specific subset of the UMLS knowledge base relevant to a medical domain is a prerequisite for the development of specialized applications based on UMLS. We have developed a method based on the selection of the appropriate terms in original nomenclatures and the capture of a set of UMLS terms that are linked to them in the network to a certain degree. We have experimented it as the foundation for a concept base applied to urology. Results depend on the exhaustiveness of the relationships between the Metal concepts. A preliminary analysis of the sub-base reveals that some adaptations of vocabulary and ontology are required for clinical applications.
Burgun
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A
Laboratoire d'Informatique Médicale, C.H.U., Rennes, France.
Delamarre
D
D
Botti
G
G
Lukacs
B
B
Mayeux
D
D
Bremond
M
M
Kohler
F
F
Fieschi
M
M
Le Beux
P
P
D000465:Algorithms; D009626:Terminology as Topic; D017432:Unified Medical Language System; D014572:Urology