JMIR Medical Informatics, 2021 BackgroundThe Unified Medical Language System (UMLS) has been a critical tool in biomedical and health informatics, and the year 2021 marks its 30th anniversary.
Xia Jing
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The Unified Medical Language System SPECIALIST Lexicon and Lexical Tools: Development and applications. [PDF]
J Am Med Inform Assoc, 2020 Abstract Natural language processing (NLP) plays a vital role in modern medical informatics. It converts narrative text or unstructured data into knowledge by analyzing and extracting concepts. A comprehensive lexical system is the foundation to the success of NLP applications and an essential component at the beginning of the NLP ...
Lu CJ, Payne A, Mork JG.
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Assessing the enrichment of dietary supplement coverage in the Unified Medical Language System. [PDF]
J Am Med Inform Assoc, 2020 AbstractObjectiveWe sought to assess the need for additional coverage of dietary supplements (DS) in the Unified Medical Language System (UMLS) by investigating (1) the overlap between the integrated DIetary Supplements Knowledge base (iDISK) DS ingredient terminology and the UMLS and (2) the coverage of iDISK and the UMLS over DS mentions in the ...
Vasilakes J +5 more
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The Unified Medical Language System [PDF]
Yearbook of Medical Informatics, 1993 AbstractIn 1986, the National Library of Medicine began a long-term research and development project to build the Unified Medical Language System® (UMLS®). The purpose of the UMLS is to improve the ability of computer programs to “understand” the biomedical meaning in user inquiries and to use this understanding to retrieve and integrate relevant ...
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ODMSummary: A Tool for Automatic Structured Comparison of Multiple Medical Forms Based on Semantic Annotation with the Unified Medical Language System. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2016 Medical documentation is applied in various settings including patient care and clinical research. Since procedures of medical documentation are heterogeneous and developed further, secondary use of medical data is complicated.
Michael Storck +2 more
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The Unified Medical Language System: An Informatics Research Collaboration [PDF]
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, 1998 In 1986, the National Library of Medicine (NLM) assembled a large multidisciplinary, multisite team to work on the Unified Medical Language System (UMLS), a collaborative research project aimed at reducing fundamental barriers to the application of computers to medicine. Beyond its tangible products, the UMLS Knowledge Sources, and its influence on the
B L, Humphreys +3 more
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The Unified Medical Language System (UMLS): integrating biomedical terminology [PDF]
Nucleic Acids Research, 2004 The Unified Medical Language System (http://umlsks.nlm.nih.gov) is a repository of biomedical vocabularies developed by the US National Library of Medicine. The UMLS integrates over 2 million names for some 900,000 concepts from more than 60 families of biomedical vocabularies, as well as 12 million relations among these concepts.
Olivier Bodenreider
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Ontology of Unified Medical Language System (UMLS) Metathesaurus
مدیریت اطلاعات سلامت, 2010 Introduction: For many years, Ontologies have been available in many different forms, for example: classification schema, thesauruses, Authorized vocabularies, Terminologies and dictionaries.
Sedigheh Mohammadesmaeil, Laleh Samadi
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Using the Unified Medical Language System to Expand the Operative Stress Score - First Use Case. [PDF]
J Surg Res, 2021 Reitz KM +4 more
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A transformation-based method for auditing the IS-A hierarchy of biomedical terminologies in the Unified Medical Language System. [PDF]
J Am Med Inform Assoc, 2020 Zheng F, Shi J, Yang Y, Zheng WJ, Cui L.
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