Hi cTAKES Community, Sean, Tim, As you recall, I recently put together the YouTube video "cTAKES: How to Create an ICD10 Dictionary" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4aOnafv-NQs) to improve the documentation of using the NIH/UMLS and cTAKES tooling to generate custom dictionaries. It is working well and Dr. Tim Miller's cTAKES Docker repository will soon have further documentation/support for using this approach in establishing multiple custom cTAKES dictionaries.
However, I am writing to because while everything with ICD10 is working, I'm finding the concept matching to be inadequate as compared to SNOMED/RXNORM (I'm sure I'm just missing something :) ). For example, if I type in "Type 2 Diabetes", there is no concept match. However, when I type "Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus", there is a match. Is there a way I can better "train" or configure the dictionary to have matching at parity with that of the SNOMED/RXNORM dictionaries? For reference, here is the ICD10 configuration I'm using: <dictionary> <name>icd10Terms</name> <implementationName>org.apache.ctakes.dictionary.lookup2.dictionary.UmlsJdbcRareWordDictionary</implementationName> <properties> <property key="jdbcDriver" value="org.hsqldb.jdbcDriver" /> <property key="jdbcUrl" value="jdbc:hsqldb:file:resources/org/apache/ctakes/dictionary/lookup/fast/icd10/icd10" /> <property key="jdbcUser" value="sa" /> <property key="jdbcPass" value="" /> <property key="rareWordTable" value="cui_terms" /> <property key="umlsUrl" value=" https://uts-ws.nlm.nih.gov/restful/isValidUMLSUser"; /> <property key="umlsVendor" value="NLM-6515182895" /> <property key="umlsUser" value="CHANGE_ME" /> <property key="umlsPass" value="CHANGE_ME" /> </properties> </dictionary> <conceptFactory> <name>icd10Concepts</name> <implementationName>org.apache.ctakes.dictionary.lookup2.concept.UmlsJdbcConceptFactory</implementationName> <properties> <property key="jdbcDriver" value="org.hsqldb.jdbcDriver" /> <property key="jdbcUrl" value="jdbc:hsqldb:file:resources/org/apache/ctakes/dictionary/lookup/fast/icd10/icd10" /> <property key="jdbcUser" value="sa" /> <property key="jdbcPass" value="" /> <property key="umlsUrl" value=" https://uts-ws.nlm.nih.gov/restful/isValidUMLSUser"; /> <property key="umlsVendor" value="NLM-6515182895" /> <property key="umlsUser" value="CHANGE_ME" /> <property key="umlsPass" value="CHANGE_ME" /> <property key="tuiTable" value="tui" /> <property key="prefTermTable" value="prefTerm" /> <property key="icd10cmTable" value="text" /> <property key="icd10amaeTable" value="text" /> <property key="icd10amTable" value="text" /> <property key="srcTable" value="text" /> <property key="icd10Table" value="text" /> <property key="icd10aeTable" value="text" /> <property key="icd10pcsTable" value="text" /> </properties> </conceptFactory> As always, I appreciate the hard work this community has done and, based on the feedback from this thread, I will do my best to improve the documentation for others. Thanks, Matthew Vita www.matthewvita.com
