Hello all,

I am executing ctakes CPE from Eclipse i.e. ctakesCPEGUI.java. I want to
access and process the (UMLS) Concept Annotations and NumToken Annotations.
I went through the src but couldnt find the the exact class which I would
need to modify to implement my Ontology Lookup Annotator. I want to check
each UMLS concept present in document, then check whether there is a
corresponding instance in Heartfaid Ontology and if so assert a fact about
the patient.
Kindly let me know how to programmatically access Concept Annotation
results.

Thanks
Deepal Dhariwal


On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 12:50 PM, Chen, Pei
<[email protected]>wrote:

> Hi Deepal,
> I am assuming the mapping would be through UMLS CUI's.
> For example, for each CUI identified by the cTAKES UMLS Dictionary Lookup
> annotator.
>
> Just putting some ideas out there:
> One would need a data structure to represent the Cardio Classes (perhaps a
> hashmap of some sort) that maps CUI's to the classes/instances.
> And then also a process to load that structure from the RDF (from either
> flat file, db, etc.) format?
> One might also need a place holder in the CAS (type system) to store the
> identified classes?
>
> --Pei
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Deepal Dhariwal [mailto:[email protected]]
> > Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2013 11:21 AM
> > To: [email protected]
> > Subject: Re: Information Extraction using ontology
> >
> > Hello all,
> >
> > So what I am aiming is as follows:
> > 1. Extract UMLS medical terms from a given clinical narrative using
> ctakes
> > umls lookup annotator 2. Identify cardio vascular terms from above set.
> > These terms are classes / instances of heart failure ontology.  I want
> to make
> > this mapping generic so that if in future I am targeting carcinogenic
> terms, I'll
> > would just need to change underlying ontology.
> > 3. Lastly I want to run a reasoner over the rdf triples obtained from
> above
> > step.
> >
> > For example: Find the timi score of patient 1. Extract all medical terms
> from
> > clinical narrative 2. Extract cardio vascular terms such as whether the
> patient
> > has congestive heart failure, whether he is an active smoker etc. using
> heart
> > failure ontology 3. Run the sparql query of form :
> > timi score = does patient have chf + age > 65 + active smoker?
> >
> > Hence I need guidance on an annotator that would map ctakes terms to
> > heart failure ontology and allow to run reasoner over it. Any suggestions
> > would be of great help.
> >
> >
> > Thanks
> > Deepal Dhariwal
> >
> > On Mon, Dec 31, 2012 at 9:00 AM, Lin, Chen
> > <[email protected]>wrote:
> >
> > > This mapping sounds very interesting and has potential usage for other
> > > projects. I will be curious to follow its progress. Thank you, Deepal,
> > > for digging this!
> > >
> > > Best,
> > > Chen
> > >
> > > Sent from my iPhone
> > >
> > > On Dec 30, 2012, at 6:43 AM, "Deepal Dhariwal"
> > > <[email protected]>
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > > > Hello Pei,
> > > >
> > > > I am aiming for an annotator that provides mapping between UMLS
> > > > CUI's and ontology classes. If I could write a generic code that
> > > > provides mapping between cTakes results and any ontology then it
> > > > might be useful to the community.
> > > > Let me know your views on this annotator.
> > > >
> > > > Thanks
> > > > Deepal Dhariwal
> > > >
> > > > On Fri, Dec 28, 2012 at 10:37 AM, Chen, Pei
> > > > <[email protected]>wrote:
> > > >
> > > >> Hi Deepal,
> > > >> If I understand correctly, you were planning to have an annotator
> > > >> that iterates through all of the UMLS CUI's identified by cTAKES
> > > >> and then map them to the heartfaid ontology class/code.
> > > >> I am not aware of anything that does specifically this, but there
> > > >> is an open ticket that is trying to do something similar for Drugs
> > > >> classes (RxNorm to NDF-RT mapping) (
> > > >> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CTAKES-107).
> > > >> It does seem like something that may be useful for others if you
> > > >> would like to contribute that to the community though...
> > > >>
> > > >> --Pei
> > > >>
> > > >>> -----Original Message-----
> > > >>> From: Deepal Dhariwal [mailto:[email protected]]
> > > >>> Sent: Thursday, December 27, 2012 10:28 PM
> > > >>> To: [email protected]
> > > >>> Cc: [email protected]
> > > >>> Subject: Re: Information Extraction using ontology
> > > >>>
> > > >>> Hello Pei,
> > > >>>
> > > >>> The dictionary is an ontology i.e. a .owl file (Reference:
> > > >>> http://lis.irb.hr/heartfaid/ontology/) . I am not sure whether it
> > > >>> is
> > > >> subset of
> > > >>> UMLS but its definitely based on UMLS since they have relations
> > > >>> such as 'UMLS Synonym'
> > > >>> An example of mapping terms would be:
> > > >>> 1. UMLS lookup annotator returns 'Hypertension' as medical
> > > >>> concept.I
> > > want
> > > >>> to assert that it corresponds to Hypertension class on this
> > > >>> ontology
> > > >> whose
> > > >>> parent is Blood Pressure and relations include TreatedBy, Could
> > > >>> Include
> > > >> etc.
> > > >>>
> > > >>> Hence I want to build a annotator that provides mapping between
> > > >>> ctakes annotator results and owl classes. Does the dictionary
> > > >>> lookup component allow to plug in dictionaries in .owl or .rdf
> format?
> > > >>>
> > > >>> Thanks
> > > >>> Deepal Dhariwal
> > > >>>
> > > >>> On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 10:31 AM, Chen, Pei
> > > >>> <[email protected]>wrote:
> > > >>>
> > > >>>> Hi Deepal,
> > > >>>> Within the dictionary lookup component, you can also plugin other
> > > >>>> custom dictionaries in additional to the UMLS ones.
> > > >>>> The dictionary itself can be in different formats (MySQL, HSQLDB,
> > > >>>> Lucene, CSV text file) and could be configured via the xml files.
> > > >>>> Is this what you were referring to?  Do you have an example of
> > > >>>> "mapping terms to the corresponding classes?"
> > > >>>> Just curious, Is the heart ontology a subset of UMLS?
> > > >>>>
> > > >>>> Thanks,
> > > >>>> --Pei
> > > >>>>
> > > >>>>> -----Original Message-----
> > > >>>>> From: Deepal Dhariwal [mailto:[email protected]]
> > > >>>>> Sent: Thursday, December 27, 2012 12:17 AM
> > > >>>>> To: [email protected];
> > > >>>>> [email protected]
> > > >>>>> Subject: Information Extraction using ontology
> > > >>>>>
> > > >>>>> Hello all,
> > > >>>>>
> > > >>>>> I have a heart ontology and I want to extract terms from a
> > > >>>>> clinical text
> > > >>>> that
> > > >>>>> correspond to classes in the ontology. cTAKES UMLS Lookup
> > > >>>>> Annotator returns UMLS terms from a given piece of text. Could I
> > > >>>>> modify the
> > > >>>> annotator
> > > >>>>> to extract terms from the ontology and is there is some other
> > > >>>>> component
> > > >>>> of
> > > >>>>> cTAKES that would allow me to do so. I am trying to set up a
> > > >>>>> cTakes
> > > >>>> pipeline
> > > >>>>> where I first extract medical terms from text using UMLS lookup
> > > >>>>> then
> > > >>>> filter
> > > >>>>> cardio vascular terms and identify relations between them using
> > > >>>>> an
> > > >>>> ontology.
> > > >>>>>
> > > >>>>> Thanks
> > > >>>>> Deepal Dhariwal
> > > >>>>
> > > >>
> > >
>

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