scholarly journals Semantic Similarity Measures between Terms in the Biomedical Domain within frame work Unified Medical Language System (UMLS)

Author(s):  
Abdelhakeem M. B. Abdelrahman ◽  
Dr. Ahmad Kayed
JAMIA Open ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer L Wilson ◽  
Mike Wong ◽  
Nicholas Stepanov ◽  
Dragutin Petkovic ◽  
Russ Altman

Abstract Objectives We sought to cluster biological phenotypes using semantic similarity and create an easy-to-install, stable, and reproducible tool. Materials and Methods We generated Phenotype Clustering (PhenClust)—a novel application of semantic similarity for interpreting biological phenotype associations—using the Unified Medical Language System (UMLS) metathesaurus, demonstrated the tool’s application, and developed Docker containers with stable installations of two UMLS versions. Results PhenClust identified disease clusters for drug network-associated phenotypes and a meta-analysis of drug target candidates. The Dockerized containers eliminated the requirement that the user install the UMLS metathesaurus. Discussion Clustering phenotypes summarized all phenotypes associated with a drug network and two drug candidates. Docker containers can support dissemination and reproducibility of tools that are otherwise limited due to insufficient software support. Conclusion PhenClust can improve interpretation of high-throughput biological analyses where many phenotypes are associated with a query and the Dockerized PhenClust achieved our objective of decreasing installation complexity.


Complexity ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 ◽  
pp. 1-7
Author(s):  
Nada Boudjellal ◽  
Huaping Zhang ◽  
Asif Khan ◽  
Arshad Ahmad ◽  
Rashid Naseem ◽  
...  

The rapidly growing data in many areas, as well as in the biomedical domain, require the assistance of information extraction systems to acquire the much needed knowledge about specific entities such as proteins, drugs, or diseases practically within a short time. Annotated corpora serve the purpose of facilitating the process of building NLP systems. While colossal work has been done in this area for English language, other languages like Arabic seem to lack these resources, especially in the healthcare area. Therefore, in this work, we present a method to develop a silver standard medical corpus for the Arabic language with a dictionary as a minimal supervision tool. The corpus contains 49,856 sentences tagged with 13 entity types corresponding to a subset of UMLS (Unified Medical Language System) concept types. The evaluation of a subset of corpus showed the efficiency of the method used to annotate it with 90% accuracy.


2021 ◽  
Vol 30 (01) ◽  
pp. 189-189

Le DH. UFO: A tool for unifying biomedical ontology-based semantic similarity calculation, enrichment analysis and visualization. https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0235670 Robinson PN, Ravanmehr V, Jacobsen JOB, Danis D, Zhang XA, Carmody LC, Gargano MA, Thaxton CL, Core UNCB, Karlebach G, Reese J, Holtgrewe M, Kohler S, McMurry JA, Haendel MA, Smedley D. Interpretable Clinical Genomics with a Likelihood Ratio Paradigm. https://www.cell.com/ajhg/fulltext/S0002-9297(20)30230-5 Slater LT, Gkoutos GV, Hoehndorf R. Towards semantic interoperability: finding and repairing hidden contradictions in biomedical ontologies. https://bmcmedinformdecismak.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12911-020-01336-2 Zheng F, Shi J, Yang Y, Zheng WJ, Cui L. A transformation-based method for auditing the IS-A hierarchy of biomedical terminologies in the Unified Medical Language System. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32918476/


1991 ◽  
Vol 11 (4_suppl) ◽  
pp. S89-S93 ◽  
Author(s):  
James J. Cimino ◽  
Soumitra Sengupta

The authors use an example to illustrate combining Integrated Academic Information Management System (IAIMS) components (applications) into an integral whole, to facilitate using the components simultaneously or in sequence. They examine a model for classifying IAIMS systems, proposing ways in which the Unified Medical Language System (UMLS) can be exploited in them.


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