Cimino J J, Barnett G O
Columbia University.
MD Comput. 1990 Mar-Apr;7(2):104-9.
Automatic translation of medical terms from one controlled vocabulary into another is essential to the integration of diverse medical informatics systems. We have developed a strategy in which medical terms are represented in a standard format that provides semantic description of the terms. We demonstrate the representational power of our method by showing that a subset of medical terms (procedures) from diverse vocabularies can be described in this manner. We assess the potential usefulness of our approach for facilitating automatic translation by finding the closest match for MeSH cardiovascular procedures with ICD-9 procedures.
将医学术语从一种受控词汇表自动翻译为另一种对于整合不同的医学信息系统至关重要。我们已经开发出一种策略，其中医学术语以一种提供术语语义描述的标准格式来表示。我们通过表明来自不同词汇表的医学术语子集（程序）可以用这种方式进行描述，来展示我们方法的表示能力。我们通过找到与ICD - 9程序最匹配的医学主题词表（MeSH）心血管程序，来评估我们的方法对于促进自动翻译的潜在实用性。
