Daniel L. Rubin MD, MS, Presenter: Nothing to Disclose

1) Review the rationale for developing a new lexicon for medical imaging. 2) See how an imaging lexicon can be used for education, research, and clinical reporting. 3) Understand the key technical decision that were necessary to create a complete and organized vocabulary for medical imaging. 4) Learn about the formats in which RadLex is distributed and the tools that are available for maintaining and using terminology systems. 5) Discover how you can take advantage of RadLex in the development of radiology applications.

The purpose of the RadLex lexicon is to provide a uniform framework for indexing and retrieval of a variety of radiology information sources, including teaching files, research data, and radiology reports. The RadLex lexicon is unifying and supplementing radiology terms from other medical lexicons, such as the ACR Index from the American College of Radiology, the Unified Medical Language System (UMLS) from the National Library of Medicine, SNOMED-CT from the College of American Pathology, and the DICOM Content Mapping Resource. This session will explain the motivations for the creation of the RadLex imaging lexicon and describe new applications being created that leverage its rich knowledge resources, such as structured reporting, radiology information retrieval, image annotation, decision support, and computerized order entry. RadLex technical experts will describe the formats in which RadLex is distributed, and will demonstrate some of the tools available to incorporate RadLex into the development of useful software applications. An update on the recently developed RadLex “playbook” will be provided, with an overview of RadLex methods to describe radiology orderables and procedure steps.

Rubin, D, Overview of RadLex®  .  Radiological Society of North America 2014 Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting, - ,Chicago IL. http://archive.rsna.org/2014/11033166.html