Per UMLS, preferred term /text should be for CUI/TUI/SOURCE combo as defined in the dictionary. I actually didn't modify the code for this yet, will do that shortly and will see how that turns out.
Sent from my iPhone On Oct 22, 2013, at 4:25 PM, vijay garla <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >>
