I'm curious as to how you decide which is 'the' preferred term; maybe this is clear if you are just using SNOMED-CT. However, if you use multiple UMLS vocabularies, there can be multiple (or no) preferred terms among the MRCONSO entries with the same CUI.
-vj On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 12:22 PM, Masanz, James J. <[email protected]>wrote: > Just in case it wasn't clear, when I said it only contains SNOMED-CT > codes, I pointing out that it doesn't have entries for ICD9 or MeSH or NCI > Thesaurus, even though those are used when doing the dictionary lookup. I > wasn't thinking about the codes vs. text part. > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto: > [email protected]] On Behalf Of > Chen, Pei > Sent: Tuesday, October 22, 2013 11:17 AM > To: [email protected]; 'samir chabou' > Subject: RE: Synonymous terms > > > if I need to get term name do I have to do a lookup on umls ? > FYI: I was proposing adding an additional attribute to store the > description/preferredText(term) [1] since this information is already > available in the dictionary lookup. > I think most folks would find this useful in additional to just saving the > CUI/Code. Otherwise, they would have to do another lookup further > downstream to get the description of the CUI/Code. > > [1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CTAKES-224 > --Pei > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Masanz, James J. [mailto:[email protected]] > > Sent: Tuesday, October 22, 2013 10:57 AM > > To: '[email protected]'; 'samir chabou' > > Subject: RE: Synonymous terms > > > > > > ontologyConceptArray only contains SNOMED-CT codes (except for > > medications, where it contains RxNorm codes or CUIs) > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [email protected] > > [mailto:[email protected]] On > > Behalf Of samir chabou > > Sent: Monday, October 21, 2013 6:59 PM > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: Fw: Synonymous terms > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On Monday, October 21, 2013 7:58:01 PM, samir chabou > > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Synonymous > > terms > > > > > > > > Given a C0001621 I need to get its synonyms terms for example in MeSH, > > ICD, SNOMED (as shown bellow)…Is that possible ? > > > > > > > > Synonymous > > terms Adrenal gland diseases MeSH D000307 Diseases > of the > > adrenal glands SNOMED DB-70000 > > ... > > > > Are the > > synonyms kept in ontologyConceptArray ? If yes, then in the > > ontologyConceptArray the information displayed is about identifier (code, > > cui, tui, oid …) if I need to get term name do I have to do a lookup on > umls ? > > thanks > > Samir >
