title: Projection and inheritance of SNOMED CT relations between MeSH terms.
abstract: This paper proposes a methodology to achieve the automatic inheritance of SNOMED CT relations applied to MeSH preferred terms using UMLS as knowledge source server. We propose an interoperability wildcard to achieve this objective. A quantitative and a qualitative analysis were performed on top four SNOMED CT relations inherited between MeSH preferred terms. A total of 12,030 couples of MeSH preferred terms are in relation via at least one SNOMED CT relationship. For the top-four relations inherited between MeSH preferred terms, overall 79.25% of them are relevant, 16.25% as intermediate and 4.5% as irrelevant, as judged by a medical librarian. This work should lead to an optimization of multi-terminology indexing tools, multi-terminology information retrieval and navigation among a multi-terminology server.
authors.affiliation: CISMeF, Rouen University Hospital, Rouen, France. tayeb.merabti@chu-rouen.fr
authors.forename: Tayeb
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Merabti
authors.forename: Catherine
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Letord
authors.forename: Hocine
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Abdoune
authors.forename: Thierry
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Lecroq
authors.forename: Michel
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Joubert
authors.forename: Stéfan J
authors.initials: SJ
authors.lastname: Darmoni
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D046650:Medical Subject Headings; D039061:Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine; D009626:Terminology as Topic