OK, thanks James. Does that mean there is an implicit map lookup somewhere in 
ctakes from snomed/umls to icd9?

On 04/14/2014 10:57 AM, Masanz, James J. wrote:
The ICD9 codes themselves, such as 726.72, are not used, but the text of ICD9 
code descriptions, such as “tibialis tendinitis”, are used by dictionary lookup.

From: Miller, Timothy [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Thursday, April 10, 2014 5:33 AM
To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
Subject: RE: ICD9 code resolving..

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

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From: Prasanna Bala 
[[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>]
Sent: Thursday, April 10, 2014 2:15 AM
To: [email protected]<mailto:[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

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