To quickly get a larger mapping of ICD9 from all the SNOMED-CT codes that 
cTAKES finds I did a post processing step using the maps at: 
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/research/umls/mapping_projects/icd9cm_to_snomedct.html

-----Original Message-----
From: Masanz, James J. [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Wednesday, October 23, 2013 12:42 PM
To: '[email protected]'; 'samir chabou'
Subject: RE: Synonymous terms


Maybe an example is best.

There is a term in  MeSH "Progeria-Like Syndrome"
The CUI for that is C0009207

That term (using those words) does not appear in SNOMED-CT.
But there is at least one SNOMED-CT term (Cockayne syndrome, with code 
21086008) associated with that CUI within the UMLS metathesaurus.
Therefore cTAKES will annotate "Progeria-Like Syndrome" with CUI C0009207and 
also cTAKES will list the SNOMED-CT codes that are associated with that CUI, 
even though none of the SNOMED-CT terms associated with the CUI C0009207 
contain the word "like".

However, the MeSH code (D003057) for "Progeria-Like Syndrome" will not be 
included within the CAS.

Hope that helps
-- James


-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] 
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of 
samir chabou
Sent: Tuesday, October 22, 2013 6:55 PM
To: samir chabou; [email protected]
Subject: Re: Synonymous terms

sorry i'm having some problem with my e-mail
correct me if i'm wrong. Based in what is said, when i do a lookup i'll get the 
term (entity, event for example) that can be from MeSH, ICD9 or NCI but the 
ontologyConceptArray will contains the codes synonyms in SNOMED-CT




On Tuesday, October 22, 2013 12:23:06 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

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