Welcome to the Skeletome Thesaurus Project WebsiteBackgroundAs part of our efforts to transform the International Nosology of Constitutional Disorders of Bone into an online knowledgebase, we are trying to develop a controlled vocabulary that can be used to describe the radiographic features of skeletal dysplasias. Currently, there is no standardized way to describe the radiographic features of skeletal dysplasias and different people use different terms to describe the same radiographic feature. For example, some might describe the femurs in Kniest dysplasia as “short with wide proximal and distal metaphyses” while others might describe them as “dumbell-shaped”. The lack of a standardized vocabulary makes it difficult to code radiographic features in a computer-processable format. For example, a database search for xrays with dumbbell-shaped femurs would fail to find any xrays in which the femurs are described as short with wide proximal and distal metaphyses. As a first step in the development of a standardized vocabulary we are analyzing how different people describe the same radiographic features.
Instructions• Click the “Register” button.• Once you have successfully registered, enter your user name and password above and click the “Login” button. • After logging in, you will see an xray. • Please study the xray and describe its radiographic features in the text box above the image. • Click the “Submit” button to submit your description. • If you wish to change a description, you can go back to any previously submitted image by clicking on the "Prev Image" button until you find the image you are looking for. Simply change, add, or delete the description and click the “Save” button to save your changed description • Click the “Next Image” button to display the next image. • If you have forgotten your password or have any other problem with this website, please email us at support@skeletome.org Please describe as many images as you can. The more images you annotate, the more we learn about which terms are important to describe an xray. You can stop annotating and come back to this website at any time. The website will remember where you have left off. Thank you for your help with this project. The Skeletome Team |