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The Unified Medical Language System.
Lindberg DA, Humphreys BL, McCray AT. Lindberg DA, et al. Methods Inf Med. 1993 Aug;32(4):281-91. doi: 10.1055/s-0038-1634945. Methods Inf Med. 1993. PMID: 8412823 Free PMC article.
In 1986, the National Library of Medicine began a long-term research and development project to build the Unified Medical Language System (UMLS). The purpose of the UMLS is to improve the ability of computer programs to "understand" the b …
In 1986, the National Library of Medicine began a long-term research and development project to build the Unified Medical L …
A review of auditing techniques for the Unified Medical Language System.
Zheng L, He Z, Wei D, Keloth V, Fan JW, Lindemann L, Zhu X, Cimino JJ, Perl Y. Zheng L, et al. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2020 Oct 1;27(10):1625-1638. doi: 10.1093/jamia/ocaa108. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2020. PMID: 32766692 Free PMC article. Review.
OBJECTIVE: The study sought to describe the literature related to the development of methods for auditing the Unified Medical Language System (UMLS), with particular attention to identifying errors and inconsistencies of attributes of the concep …
OBJECTIVE: The study sought to describe the literature related to the development of methods for auditing the Unified Medical …
The Unified Medical Language System (UMLS): integrating biomedical terminology.
Bodenreider O. Bodenreider O. Nucleic Acids Res. 2004 Jan 1;32(Database issue):D267-70. doi: 10.1093/nar/gkh061. Nucleic Acids Res. 2004. PMID: 14681409 Free PMC article.
The Unified Medical Language System (http://umlsks.nlm.nih.gov) is a repository of biomedical vocabularies developed by the US National Library of Medicine. ...The UMLS knowledge sources are distributed on CD-ROM and by FTP....
The Unified Medical Language System (http://umlsks.nlm.nih.gov) is a repository of biomedical vocabularies devel …
Evaluating MedDRA-to-ICD terminology mappings.
Zhang X, Feng Y, Li F, Ding J, Tahseen D, Hinojosa E, Chen Y, Tao C. Zhang X, et al. BMC Med Inform Decis Mak. 2024 Feb 7;23(Suppl 4):299. doi: 10.1186/s12911-023-02375-1. BMC Med Inform Decis Mak. 2024. PMID: 38326827 Free PMC article.
We focus on evaluating the current mapping status between MedDRA and ICD through the Unified Medical Language System (UMLS) and Observational Medical Outcomes Partnership Common Data Model (OMOP CDM). ...Referring to its own mapping standard, so …
We focus on evaluating the current mapping status between MedDRA and ICD through the Unified Medical Language System …
Cross-lingual Unified Medical Language System entity linking in online health communities.
Bitton Y, Cohen R, Schifter T, Bachmat E, Elhadad M, Elhadad N. Bitton Y, et al. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2020 Oct 1;27(10):1585-1592. doi: 10.1093/jamia/ocaa150. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2020. PMID: 32910823 Free PMC article.
To reduce their variability, medical terms must be normalized, such as linking them to Unified Medical Language System (UMLS) concepts. We present a method to identify both transliterated and translated Hebrew medical terms and link them with …
To reduce their variability, medical terms must be normalized, such as linking them to Unified Medical Language Syst …
Something New and Different: The Unified Medical Language System.
Humphreys BL, Tuttle MS. Humphreys BL, et al. Stud Health Technol Inform. 2022 Feb 1;288:100-112. doi: 10.3233/SHTI210985. Stud Health Technol Inform. 2022. PMID: 35102832
National Library of Medicine in 1984 and quickly launched the Unified Medical Language System (UMLS) research and development project to help computer understand biomedical meaning and to enable retrieval and integration of information from disp …
National Library of Medicine in 1984 and quickly launched the Unified Medical Language System (UMLS) rese …
Unified Medical Language System resources improve sieve-based generation and Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers (BERT)-based ranking for concept normalization.
Xu D, Gopale M, Zhang J, Brown K, Begoli E, Bethard S. Xu D, et al. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2020 Oct 1;27(10):1510-1519. doi: 10.1093/jamia/ocaa080. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2020. PMID: 32719838 Free PMC article.
We first design a sieve-based system that uses Lucene indices over the training data, Unified Medical Language System (UMLS) preferred terms, and UMLS synonyms to generate a list of possible concepts for each mention. ...CONCLUSIONS: Our …
We first design a sieve-based system that uses Lucene indices over the training data, Unified Medical Language Syste …
The impact of learning Unified Medical Language System knowledge embeddings in relation extraction from biomedical texts.
Weinzierl MA, Maldonado R, Harabagiu SM. Weinzierl MA, et al. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2020 Oct 1;27(10):1556-1567. doi: 10.1093/jamia/ocaa205. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2020. PMID: 33029619 Free PMC article.
OBJECTIVE: We explored how knowledge embeddings (KEs) learned from the Unified Medical Language System (UMLS) Metathesaurus impact the quality of relation extraction on 2 diverse sets of biomedical texts. ...CONCLUSIONS: Incorporating LKEs infor …
OBJECTIVE: We explored how knowledge embeddings (KEs) learned from the Unified Medical Language System (UMLS …
HealthTermFinder: Enhancing Multilingual Interoperability.
Noll R, Storf H, Schaaf J. Noll R, et al. Stud Health Technol Inform. 2025 May 15;327:2-6. doi: 10.3233/SHTI250262. Stud Health Technol Inform. 2025. PMID: 40380374
HealthTermFinder is a tool designed to harness the Unified Medical Language System (UMLS) for the multilingual discovery of standardized healthcare terms. Our tool explores the relationships between atomic units of UMLS terminology source …
HealthTermFinder is a tool designed to harness the Unified Medical Language System (UMLS) for the multili …
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