Overview and utilization of the NCI Thesaurus: Conference Papers
Comparative and Functional Genomics
Modeling a description logic vocabulary for cancer research
Journal of Biomedical Informatics
NCI Thesaurus: A semantic model integrating cancer-related clinical and molecular information
Journal of Biomedical Informatics
Journal of Biomedical Informatics
Oncology ontology in the NCI thesaurus
AIME'05 Proceedings of the 10th conference on Artificial Intelligence in Medicine
Guest Editorial: Special Issue on Auditing of Terminologies
Journal of Biomedical Informatics
The cardiac atlas project: development of a framework integrating cardiac images and models
STACOM'10/CESC'10 Proceedings of the First international conference on Statistical atlases and computational models of the heart, and international conference on Cardiac electrophysiological simulation challenge
A quality improvement model for healthcare terminologies
Journal of Biomedical Informatics
Exposing the cancer genome atlas as a SPARQL endpoint
Journal of Biomedical Informatics
International Journal of Computers in Healthcare
Enabling international adoption of LOINC through translation
Journal of Biomedical Informatics
Opportunities for knowledge management tools in clinical genetic services
HIKM '11 Proceedings of the Fourth Australasian Workshop on Health Informatics and Knowledge Management - Volume 120
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The National Cancer Institute (NCI) is developing an integrated biomedical informatics infrastructure, the cancer Biomedical Informatics Grid (caBIG^(R)), to support collaboration within the cancer research community. A key part of the caBIG architecture is the establishment of terminology standards for representing data. In order to evaluate the suitability of existing controlled terminologies, the caBIG Vocabulary and Data Elements Workspace (VCDE WS) working group has developed a set of criteria that serve to assess a terminology's structure, content, documentation, and editorial process. This paper describes the evolution of these criteria and the results of their use in evaluating four standard terminologies: the Gene Ontology (GO), the NCI Thesaurus (NCIt), the Common Terminology for Adverse Events (known as CTCAE), and the laboratory portion of the Logical Objects, Identifiers, Names and Codes (LOINC). The resulting caBIG criteria are presented as a matrix that may be applicable to any terminology standardization effort.