Unified Medical Language System
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Monday, November 23, 2009

Annotating the human genome with Disease Ontology.

5 Jul 2009 BACKGROUND: The human genome has been extensively annotated with Gene Ontology for biological functions, but minimally computationally annotated for diseases. RESULTS: We used the Unified Medical Language System (UMLS) MetaMap Transfer tool (MMTx) ... Read more...

Alignment of the UMLS semantic network with BioTop: methodology and assessment.

13 Jun 2009 MOTIVATION: For many years, the Unified Medical Language System (UMLS) semantic network (SN) has been used as an upper-level semantic framework for the categorization of terms from terminological resources in biomedicine. BioTop has recently been ... Read more...

The Neighborhood Auditing Tool: a hybrid interface for auditing the UMLS.

30 May 2009 The UMLS's integration of more than 100 source vocabularies, not necessarily consistent with one another, causes some inconsistencies. The purpose of auditing the UMLS is to detect such inconsistencies and to suggest how to resolve them while ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Unified Medical Language System'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Annotating the human genome with Disease Ontology. 5 Jul 2009
• Alignment of the UMLS semantic network with BioTop: methodology and assessment. 13 Jun 2009
• The Neighborhood Auditing Tool: a hybrid interface for auditing the UMLS. 30 May 2009
• Auditing associative relations across two knowledge sources. 30 May 2009
• Presentation of the 2008 Morris F. Collen Award to Robert A. Greenes. 29 Apr 2009
• Application and evaluation of automated semantic annotation of gene expression experiments. 15 Apr 2009
• Analyzing polysemous concepts from a clinical perspective: application to auditing concept categorization in the UMLS. 16 Mar 2009
• An automated approach to mapping external terminologies to the UMLS. 2 Mar 2009
• Using semantic and structural properties of the Unified Medical Language System to discover potential terminological relationships. 2 Mar 2009
• Automated semantic indexing of figure captions to improve radiology image retrieval. 2 Mar 2009
• PhenoGO: an integrated resource for the multiscale mining of clinical and biological data. 3 Feb 2009
• Ontology-driven indexing of public datasets for translational bioinformatics. 3 Feb 2009
• Integrative disease classification based on cross-platform microarray data. 28 Jan 2009
• Biomedical word sense disambiguation with ontologies and metadata: automation meets accuracy. 19 Jan 2009
• Requirements analysis for HL7 message development in poison control center. 30 Dec 2008
• Two-Phase chief complaint mapping to the UMLS metathesaurus in Korean electronic medical records. 30 Dec 2008
• Using WordNet synonym substitution to enhance UMLS source integration. 28 Dec 2008
• An integrated database-pipeline system for studying single nucleotide polymorphisms and diseases. 10 Dec 2008
• BioTagger-GM: a gene/protein name recognition system. 9 Dec 2008
• [RadLex - German version: a radiological lexicon for indexing image and report information] 9 Dec 2008

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Technical information about 'Unified Medical Language System'

Definition: A research and development program initiated by the NATIONAL LIBRARY OF MEDICINE to build knowledge sources for the purpose of aiding the development of systems that help health professionals retrieve and integrate biomedical information. The knowledge sources can be used to link disparate information systems to overcome retrieval problems caused by differences in terminology and the scattering of relevant information across many databases. The three knowledge sources are the Metathesaurus, the Semantic Network, and the Specialist Lexicon.

Descriptor UI: D017432

Alternative terms: Unified Medical Language System; UMLS; Metathesaurus;

Related Mesh Headings: Terminology as Topic; Subject Headings;

Allowable Qualifiers: classification; economics; history; instrumentation; legislation & jurisprudence; manpower; organization & administration; standards; supply & distribution; trends; utilization; statistics & numerical data; ethics;

Tree Number: L01.453.245.945.800;

History Note: 92

Technical Notes: CATALOG: use NAF entry