title: Designing a sub-set of the UMLS knowledge base applied to a clinical domain: methods and evaluation.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Laboratoire d'Informatique Médicale, C.H.U., Rennes, France.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Burgun
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Delamarre
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Botti
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Lukacs
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Mayeux
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Bremond
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Kohler
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Fieschi
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Le Beux
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D009626:Terminology as Topic; D017432:Unified Medical Language System; D014572:Urology