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Table 2 Cross-ontology mapping of DermO classes

From: DermO; an ontology for the description of dermatologic disease

Ontology

Number of cross-referenced classes

Disease Ontology

1330

Human Phenotype Ontology

373

MeSH thesaurus

1509

UMLS

1398

ICD-10

537

DermLex

1054

SNOMED-CT

2337

Unreferenced classes

1773

  1. Dermo classes were lexically mapped to a set of related ontologies and mappings subsequently manually checked. Only exact mappings were included but in many cases one DermO term could be mapped to classes in multiple ontologies with the same label or synonym. About half the classes in DermO have no match in the ontologies examined. Mappings are included in the ontology as cross references