Abstract
The UMLS is a complex collection of interconnected biomedical concepts derived from standard nomenclatures. Designing a specific subset of the UMLS knowledge base relevant to a medical domain is a prerequisite for the development of specialized applications based on UMLS. We have developed a method based on the selection of the appropriate terms in original nomenclatures and the capture of a set of UMLS terms that are linked to them in the network to a certain degree. We have experimented it as the foundation for a concept base applied to urology. Results depend on the exhaustiveness of the relationships between the Metal concepts. A preliminary analysis of the sub-base reveals that some adaptations of vocabulary and ontology are required for clinical applications.
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