[CTAKES-198] Drug NER only create drug signatures for RXNOM. Should it be extended to all identified MedicationEventMention?

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: future enhancement
• Component/s: ctakes-drug-ner
• Labels: patch
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Chen Lin
• Created: 24/May/13 19:23
• Updated: 31/May/13 15:39
• Resolved: 31/May/13 15:39

Description

In DrugMentionAnnotator of the drug-ner module, it is hard-coded to only add drug signatures (e.g. dosage, status change, strength, etc.) for RXNOM terms. Shouldn't the check for RXNOM be removed, so that signatures can be added for all MedicationEventMentions?

while (uniqueNER.hasNext())
{

tokenAnt = (MedicationEventMention) uniqueNER.next();
boolean isDrugNER = false;
FSArray ocArr = tokenAnt.getOntologyConceptArr();
if (ocArr != null)
{
for (int i = 0; i < ocArr.size() && !isDrugNER; i++)
{
OntologyConcept oc = (OntologyConcept) ocArr.get;

String scheme = oc.getCodingScheme();
if (scheme.compareTo("RXNORM") == 0)

{ isDrugNER = true; }

}
}