title: Augmenting Oracle Text with the UMLS for enhanced searching of free-text medical reports.
abstract: The intrinsic complexity of free-text medical reports imposes great challenges for information retrieval systems. We have developed a prototype search engine for retrieving clinical reports that leverages the powerful indexing and querying capabilities of Oracle Text, and the rich biomedical domain knowledge and semantic structures that are captured in the UMLS Metathesaurus.
authors.affiliation: The Ohio State University Medical Center, Information Warehouse, Columbus, OH, USA.
authors.forename: Jing
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Ding
authors.forename: Selnur
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Erdal
authors.forename: Rakesh
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Dhaval
authors.forename: Jyoti
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Kamal
mesh_terms: D000043:Abstracting and Indexing; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval / Q000379:methods*; D016347:Medical Records Systems, Computerized; D017432:Unified Medical Language System