Development of the ontology using a problem-driven approach: in the context of traditional Chinese medicine diagnosis

Lau, Adela S. M.; Tse, Sonny H. M.

doi:10.1504/ijkedm.2010.032579

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“…As the most comprehensive collection of medical terminologies, UMLS has been used in 34 medical subdomains in a variety of ways. The subdomains in which UMLS has been used include Alzheimer disease [ 45 , 46 ], anatomical structure [ 47 - 64 ], appendectomy [ 65 ], asthma [ 66 , 67 ], blood transfusion [ 68 , 69 ], breast biopsy [ 65 ], breast cancer [ 70 , 71 ], cardiovascular diseases [ 72 - 74 ], colorectal cancer [ 75 , 76 ], depression [ 77 , 78 ], dilated cardiomyopathies [ 79 ], epidemiology [ 80 , 81 ], falling injury risk assessment [ 82 ], HIV [ 83 ], hypertension [ 84 - 86 ], Kawasaki disease [ 87 ], liver cancer [ 88 ], liver diseases [ 89 , 90 ], lupus [ 91 ], neuropsychiatric disorders [ 92 - 94 ], occupational medicine [ 95 , 96 ], oncology [ 97 , 98 ], Parkinson disease [ 99 ], pneumonia [ 100 ], physical therapy [ 101 ], primary care [ 102 - 104 ], prostate cancer [ 105 , 106 ], rare diseases [ 107 - 111 ], respiratory tract infection [ 112 ], stroke thrombolysis [ 113 ], surveillance [ 114 - 116 ], traditional Chinese medicine [ 117 , 118 ], urology [ 119 , 120 ], and Zika virus [ 121 ]. There are significantly more pub...…”

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The Unified Medical Language System at 30 Years and How It Is Used and Published: Systematic Review and Content Analysis

Jing¹

2021

JMIR Med Inform

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Background The Unified Medical Language System (UMLS) has been a critical tool in biomedical and health informatics, and the year 2021 marks its 30th anniversary. The UMLS brings together many broadly used vocabularies and standards in the biomedical field to facilitate interoperability among different computer systems and applications. Objective Despite its longevity, there is no comprehensive publication analysis of the use of the UMLS. Thus, this review and analysis is conducted to provide an overview of the UMLS and its use in English-language peer-reviewed publications, with the objective of providing a comprehensive understanding of how the UMLS has been used in English-language peer-reviewed publications over the last 30 years. Methods PubMed, ACM Digital Library, and the Nursing & Allied Health Database were used to search for studies. The primary search strategy was as follows: UMLS was used as a Medical Subject Headings term or a keyword or appeared in the title or abstract. Only English-language publications were considered. The publications were screened first, then coded and categorized iteratively, following the grounded theory. The review process followed the PRISMA (Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses) guidelines. Results A total of 943 publications were included in the final analysis. Moreover, 32 publications were categorized into 2 categories; hence the total number of publications before duplicates are removed is 975. After analysis and categorization of the publications, UMLS was found to be used in the following emerging themes or areas (the number of publications and their respective percentages are given in parentheses): natural language processing (230/975, 23.6%), information retrieval (125/975, 12.8%), terminology study (90/975, 9.2%), ontology and modeling (80/975, 8.2%), medical subdomains (76/975, 7.8%), other language studies (53/975, 5.4%), artificial intelligence tools and applications (46/975, 4.7%), patient care (35/975, 3.6%), data mining and knowledge discovery (25/975, 2.6%), medical education (20/975, 2.1%), degree-related theses (13/975, 1.3%), digital library (5/975, 0.5%), and the UMLS itself (150/975, 15.4%), as well as the UMLS for other purposes (27/975, 2.8%). Conclusions The UMLS has been used successfully in patient care, medical education, digital libraries, and software development, as originally planned, as well as in degree-related theses, the building of artificial intelligence tools, data mining and knowledge discovery, foundational work in methodology, and middle layers that may lead to advanced products. Natural language processing, the UMLS itself, and information retrieval are the 3 most common themes that emerged among the included publications. The results, although largely related to academia, demonstrate that UMLS achieves its intended uses successfully, in addition to achieving uses broadly beyond its original intentions.

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The Unified Medical Language System at 30 Years and How It Is Used and Published: Systematic Review and Content Analysis

Jing¹

2021

JMIR Med Inform

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A methodology for domain ontology construction in information science

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Wang

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2011 International Conference on E-Business and E-Government (ICEE)

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The Unified Medical Language System at 30 Years and How It Is Used and Published: Systematic Review and Content Analysis (Preprint)

Jing¹

2020

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BACKGROUND Background: The unified medical language system (UMLS) has been a critical tool in biomedical and health informatics, and the year 2020 marks the 30th anniversary of UMLS. Despite its longevity, there is no systematic review on UMLS, in general. Thus, this systematic review was conducted to provide an overview of UMLS and its usage in English-language publications in the last 30 years. OBJECTIVE Objectives: The objective is twofold: to provide a comprehensive and systematic picture of the themes, their subtopics, and the publications under each category and to document systematic evidence of UMLS and how it has been used in English-language publications in the last 30 years. METHODS Methods: PubMed, ACM Digital Library, and Nursing & Allied Health Database were used to search for literature. The primary literature search strategy was as follows: UMLS was used as a MeSH term or a keyword or appeared in the title or abstract. Only English-language publications were considered. RESULTS Results: A total of 943 publications were included in the final analysis. After analysis and categorization of publications, UMLS was found to be used in the following emerging themes: natural language processing (NLP) (230 publications), information retrieval (125 publications), terminology study (90 publications), ontology and modeling (80 publications), medical subdomains (76 publications), other language studies (53 publications), artificial intelligence tools and applications (46 publications), patient care (35 publications), data mining and knowledge discovery (25 publications), medical education (20 publications), degree-related theses (13 publications), and digital library (5 publications) as well as UMLS itself (150 publications). CONCLUSIONS Conclusions: UMLS has been used and published successfully in patient care, medical education, digital libraries, and software development, as originally planned, as well as in degree-related theses, building artificial intelligence tools, data mining and knowledge discovery and more foundational work in methodology and middle layers that may lead to advanced products. NLP, UMLS itself, and information retrieval are the three themes with the most publications. The review provides systematic evidence of UMLS in English-language peer-reviewed publications in the last 30 years.

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Development of the ontology using a problem-driven approach: in the context of traditional Chinese medicine diagnosis

Cited by 3 publications

References 21 publications

The Unified Medical Language System at 30 Years and How It Is Used and Published: Systematic Review and Content Analysis

The Unified Medical Language System at 30 Years and How It Is Used and Published: Systematic Review and Content Analysis

A methodology for domain ontology construction in information science

The Unified Medical Language System at 30 Years and How It Is Used and Published: Systematic Review and Content Analysis (Preprint)

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