Many workers in medical informatics are seeking to reuse knowledge in new applications
and to share encoded knowledge across software environments. Knowledge reuse involves …

The UMLS Metathesaurus is a compilation of names, relationships, and associated
information from a variety of biomedical naming systems representing different views of …

Conceptual connections between users and information sources depend on an accurate
representation of the content of available information sources, an accurate representation of …

A stereotaxic brain atlas of the longtailed macaque (Macaca fascicularis) is presented in a
format suitable for use as a template atlas of the macaque brain. It includes most of the brain …

Health terminology and classifications have been an unseen backwater in healthcare
practice and information systems development. Today however, the recognized need for …

Objective. To develop and test a method for automatically detecting inconsistencies between
the parent–child is-a relationships in the Metathesaurus and the ancestor–descendant …

NeuroNames is a nomenclature designed as a tool for indexing digital databases of
neuroscientific information. 1 It can be used, for example, as the entry point to a digital …

The current focus of the National Library of Medicine's Unified Medical Language System
(UMLS) project is the development, testing, and evaluation of the first versions of three new …

Abstract Objective: The Unified Medical Language System (UMLS) combines many well-
established authoritative medical informatics terminologies in one knowledge representation …

This paper describes a model for automated information retrieval in which questions posed
by clinical users are analyzed to establish common syntactic and semantic patterns. The …