title: Mapping Japanese medical terms to UMLS Metathesaurus.
abstract: This paper introduces and reports the results for a project to map Japanese medical terms to the UMLS Metathesaurus. The "Thesaurus for Medical and Health related Terms version 5" published in 2003 by the Japan Medical Abstracts Society and UMLS version 2002AC provided by NLM were used in this study. The goal was to judge the validity of the correlation between the Japanese and English terms that belong to the same MeSH concept. Fifteen medicine, nursing, and library science professionals, excluding JAMAS, used a custom designed Web interface to perform this task. About 10% of the concepts were judged as invalid, and the reasoning behind these failures were analyzed. Experience from this project can be used to estimate the manpower required to revise the Japanese thesaurus after future revisions to UMLS or MeSH.
authors.affiliation: Clinical Bioinformatics Research Unit, Graduate School of Medicine, University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Bunkyo, Hongo, Tokyo 113-8655, Japan.
authors.forename: Yuzo
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Onogi
authors.forename: Kazuhiko
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Ohe
authors.forename: Masaaki
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Tanaka
authors.forename: Atsutake
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Nozoe
authors.forename: Tetsuro
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Sasaki
authors.forename: Megumi
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Sato
authors.forename: Yuko
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Kikuchi
authors.forename: Tsuneki
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Shinohara
authors.forename: Hiromichi
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Suzuki
authors.forename: Shigekoto
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kaihara
authors.forename: Yousuke
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Seyama
mesh_terms: D020407:Internet; D007564:Japan; D007802:Language; D046650:Medical Subject Headings; D017432:Unified Medical Language System; D014584:User-Computer Interface; D018875:Vocabulary, Controlled