Hi, I was reading a mail from the cTakes user group the other day where it was mentioned that cTakes uses ICD9 code internally. But then write the output for SNOMED CT code. I have certain entities for which I need to find out ICD9/10 codes. For eg: Consider the disease "DIABETES MELLITUS". There are so many ICD codes present for this illness. I need to narrow down to fewer ICD codes. Is it possible to automate this type of problem using cTakes. I also found that SNOMED CT code can be mapped to ICD codes. How reliable is this ? Also I have implemented another version of lookup table for matching UMLS semantic types using trie structure. I found this to be pretty fast although I implemented in python. I would like to contribute this to cTakes because this can improve the efficiency of the lookup process too. Please let me know your thoughts. Thanks for response.
Regards, Prasanna On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 4:02 PM, Miller, Timothy < [email protected]> wrote: > Prasanna, > I'm not aware of ICD9 codes being used within cTAKES. Is there a specific > piece of code you're referencing when you say: > > "I found that ICD9 code is used internally by the cTakes for finding the > entities." > > Tim > > > ------------------------------ > *From:* Prasanna Bala [[email protected]] > *Sent:* Thursday, April 10, 2014 2:15 AM > *To:* [email protected] > *Subject:* ICD9 code resolving.. > > Hi, > > I have some clarifications regarding ICD9 code. I found that cTakes uses > different mapping technique to resolve the entities from the diagnosis. I > want to know how they are doing this for ICD9. When I run the code, in the > output it is showing the various tagged entities with SNOMED CT code. But > my question, why I am not able to access the ICD9 code. I found that ICD9 > code is used internally by the cTakes for finding the entities. How can I > find the IC9 code for the entities ? Can you please tell me if there is any > module which is using ICD9 code in the cTakes. I need to pipeline the ICD9 > code also separately. > > Regards, > Prasanna >
