B Automated Approach to map the CCAMa French Terminology To UMLs.
The objective of this method [8] is to provide a mapping method that match between CCAM [9] in French and UMLS [10] medical procedures. The advantage of this method is that can be applied for the biomedical French terminology which is not integrated with UMLS. Moreover, the matching between the CCAM with UMLS is necessary to reach the integration between health care terminologies.
The matching [8] is applied between significant characters which are compatible with anatomical and action axes. The mapping between The CCAM and UMLS is based on the anatomic and action axes .The one character of action axis and the third character are matched to the meta- thesaurus of UML. Example, based on the three first characters the CCAM code (NCCA010) with the label (osteosynthesis of tibial diaphisis fracture by external fixing) is represented as follows: (bones of legs) matched to the anatomic axis NC while (osteosynthesis matched to the action axis.