Rosse C, Ben Said M, Eno K R, Brinkley J F
Department of Biological Structure, University of Washington, Seattle 98195, USA.
Proc Annu Symp Comput Appl Med Care. 1995:873-7.
Although anatomical terminology forms a part of biomedical structured vocabularies, available sources lack the requisite granularity, semantic types and relationships for comprehensively and consistently representing anatomical concepts in machine readable form. Thoracic angiology was selected as a proof of concept experiment for in depth representation of symbolic information in gross anatomy through the enhancement of semantic types, concepts and relationships in UMLS. Provided the representation of concepts is comprehensive, hierarchies generated with four types of simple relationships are capable of displaying anatomical information from the systemic view point with sufficient detail to meet the needs of applications in basic science education and in the practice of surgical subspecialties.
尽管解剖学术语是生物医学结构化词汇的一部分,但现有资源缺乏以机器可读形式全面、一致地表示解剖学概念所需的粒度、语义类型和关系。胸血管学被选为一个概念验证实验,旨在通过增强统一医学语言系统(UMLS)中的语义类型、概念和关系,深入表示大体解剖学中的符号信息。如果概念表示是全面的,那么通过四种简单关系生成的层次结构能够从系统角度详细展示解剖学信息,足以满足基础科学教育和外科亚专业实践中应用的需求。