A UMLS-based knowledge acquisition tool for rule-based clinical decision support system development.
Decision support systems in the medical field have to be easily modified by medical experts themselves. The authors have designed a knowledge acquisition tool to facilitate the creation and maintenance of a knowledge base by the domain expert and its sharing and reuse by other institutions. The Unified Medical Language System (UMLS) contains the domain entities and constitutes the relations repository from which the expert builds, through a specific browser [...]
Author(s): Achour, S L, Dojat, M, Rieux, C, Bierling, P, Lepage, E
DOI: 10.1136/jamia.2001.0080351