title: Mapping the GALEN CORE model to SNOMED-III: initial experiments.
abstract: As an experiment, a physician without prior training developed a model of two contiguous segments of the SNOMED disease chapter along with related sections from the Topography, Function and Morphology chapters. Effort required, coverage, reasons for difficulties and added value to SNOMED are examined.
authors.affiliation: Department of Computer Science, University of Manchester, UK.
authors.forename: P M
authors.initials: PM
authors.lastname: Pole
authors.forename: A L
authors.initials: AL
authors.lastname: Rector
mesh_terms: D000043:Abstracting and Indexing; D002309:Cardiology; D004194:Disease / Q000145:classification; D015272:Pulmonary Medicine; D009626:Terminology as Topic; D018875:Vocabulary, Controlled