Burgun A, Delamarre D, Botti G, Lukacs B, Mayeux D, Bremond M, Kohler F, Fieschi M, Le Beux P
Laboratoire d'Informatique Médicale, C.H.U., Rennes, France.
Proc Annu Symp Comput Appl Med Care. 1994:968.
The UMLS is a complex collection of interconnected biomedical concepts derived from standard nomenclatures. Designing a specific subset of the UMLS knowledge base relevant to a medical domain is a prerequisite for the development of specialized applications based on UMLS. We have developed a method based on the selection of the appropriate terms in original nomenclatures and the capture of a set of UMLS terms that are linked to them in the network to a certain degree. We have experimented it as the foundation for a concept base applied to urology. Results depend on the exhaustiveness of the relationships between the Metal concepts. A preliminary analysis of the sub-base reveals that some adaptations of vocabulary and ontology are required for clinical applications.
统一医学语言系统（UMLS）是一个由标准术语表衍生而来的相互关联的生物医学概念的复杂集合。设计与医学领域相关的UMLS知识库的特定子集是开发基于UMLS的专业应用程序的先决条件。我们已经开发出一种方法，该方法基于在原始术语表中选择合适的术语，并捕获网络中与它们有一定程度链接的一组UMLS术语。我们已经将其作为应用于泌尿外科的概念库的基础进行了试验。结果取决于元概念之间关系的详尽程度。对该子库的初步分析表明，临床应用需要对词汇和本体进行一些调整。
