descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Part of book or chapter of book , Article , Preprint 01 Jan 2013Embargo end date: 01 Jan 2013Publisher:IOS Press

Authors: Lamy, Jean-Baptiste; Tsopra, Rosy; Venot, Alain; Duclos, Catherine;

doi: 10.3233/978-1-61499-289-9-42 , 10.48550/arxiv.1312.0750

pmid: 23920512

pmc: PMC3861883

arXiv: http://arxiv.org/abs/1312.0750

A Semi-automatic Semantic Method for Mapping SNOMED CT Concepts to VCM Icons

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VCM (Visualization of Concept in Medicine) is an iconic language for representing key medical concepts by icons. However, the use of this language with reference terminologies, such as SNOMED CT, will require the mapping of its icons to the terms of these terminologies. Here, we present and evaluate a semi-automatic semantic method for the mapping of SNOMED CT concepts to VCM icons. Both SNOMED CT and VCM are compositional in nature; SNOMED CT is expressed in description logic and VCM semantics are formalized in an OWL ontology. The proposed method involves the manual mapping of a limited number of underlying concepts from the VCM ontology, followed by automatic generation of the rest of the mapping. We applied this method to the clinical findings of the SNOMED CT CORE subset, and 100 randomly-selected mappings were evaluated by three experts. The results obtained were promising, with 82 of the SNOMED CT concepts correctly linked to VCM icons according to the experts. Most of the errors were easy to fix.

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[INFO.INFO-AI] Computer Science [cs]/Artificial Intelligence [cs.AI], Symbolism, FOS: Computer and information sciences, Computer Science - Artificial Intelligence, [SDV]Life Sciences [q-bio], Computer Science - Human-Computer Interaction, MESH: Algorithms, [INFO] Computer Science [cs], MESH: Semantics, [INFO.INFO-AI]Computer Science [cs]/Artificial Intelligence [cs.AI], Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC), MESH: Natural Language Processing, MESH: Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine, 616, Computer Graphics, [INFO]Computer Science [cs], [INFO.INFO-HC]Computer Science [cs]/Human-Computer Interaction [cs.HC], Natural Language Processing, Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine, Translating, Semantics, [SDV] Life Sciences [q-bio], Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI), [SDV.SPEE] Life Sciences [q-bio]/Santé publique et épidémiologie, [SDV.SPEE]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Santé publique et épidémiologie, MESH: Symbolism, Medical Record Linkage, MESH: Computer Graphics, [INFO.INFO-HC] Computer Science [cs]/Human-Computer Interaction [cs.HC], MESH: Translating, MESH: Medical Record Linkage, Algorithms

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