| Year: 2006 | 
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| LHNCBC-2006-054 |
| Comparing the Representation of Anatomy in the FMA and SNOMED CT |
| Bodenreider O, Zhang S |
| Proc AMIA Symp 2006:46-50 |
| This paper reports on the alignment between two large ontologies of anatomy: the Foundational Model of Anatomy (FMA) and the representation of anatomical structures in SNOMED CT. The objective of this study is to investigate the compatibility between a reference ontology of anatomy (the FMA, 75,019 concepts) and a representation of anatomy created for use in clinical applications (SNOMED CT, 30,933 anatomical concepts). Methods: The alignment first identifies shared concepts lexically. The presence of shared relations across ontologies is then used to validate the mappings structurally. Results: 8,228 mappings were identified by lexical methods, of which over 97% were supported by structural evidence. No evidence was found for 0.5% of the mappings and 2.5% received negative evidence. Conclusions: Despite important differences in coverage and knowledge representation between the FMA and SNOMED CT, we have not noticed any major discrepancies in their representation of anatomical entities. |
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