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ArticleJournal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA

Auditing the semantic completeness of SNOMED CT using formal concept analysis.

Guoqian Jiang, Christopher G Chute

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Guoqian JiangDivision of Biomedical Statistics and Informatics, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, MN 55905, USA. jiang.guoqian@mayo.edu
Christopher G Chute

Funding

Predictions of structure/function by PredictProteinR01LM007329 · NLM · COLUMBIA UNIV NEW YORK MORNINGSIDE · PI PE'ER, ITSHACK G · 2003 to 2010
$2.6M
Development and Evaluation of Terminology ServicesR01LM007319 · NLM · MAYO CLINIC COLL OF MEDICINE, ROCHESTER · PI CHUTE, CHRISTOPHER G · 2002 to 2004
$836k
NLM NIH HHS R01 LM007319NLM NIH HHS R01 LM07329
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

objectiveThis study sought to develop and evaluate an approach for auditing the semantic completeness of the SNOMED CT contents using a formal concept analysis (FCA)-based model.

designWe developed a model for formalizing the normal forms of SNOMED CT expressions using FCA. Anonymous nodes, identified through the analyses, were retrieved from the model for evaluation. Two quasi-Poisson regression models were developed to test whether anonymous nodes can evaluate the semantic completeness of SNOMED CT contents (Model 1), and for testing whether such completeness differs between 2 clinical domains (Model 2). The data were randomly sampled from all the contexts that could be formed in the 2 largest domains: Procedure and Clinical Finding. Case studies (n = 4) were performed on randomly selected anonymous node samples for validation. MEASUREMENTS: In Model 1, the outcome variable is the number of fully defined concepts within a context, while the explanatory variables are the number of lattice nodes and the number of anonymous nodes. In Model 2, the outcome variable is the number of anonymous nodes and the explanatory variables are the number of lattice nodes and a binary category for domain (Procedure/Clinical Finding).

resultsA total of 5,450 contexts from the 2 domains were collected for analyses. Our findings revealed that the number of anonymous nodes had a significant negative correlation with the number of fully defined concepts within a context (p < 0.001). Further, the Clinical Finding domain had fewer anonymous nodes than the Procedure domain (p < 0.001). Case studies demonstrated that the anonymous nodes are an effective index for auditing SNOMED CT.

conclusionThe anonymous nodes retrieved from FCA-based analyses are a candidate proxy for the semantic completeness of the SNOMED CT contents. Our novel FCA-based approach can be useful for auditing the semantic completeness of SNOMED CT contents, or any large ontology, within or across domains.

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Subject HeadingsSystematized Nomenclature of MedicineUser-Computer InterfaceModels, TheoreticalSemantics

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PMID18952949
PMCPMC2605587

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