How to extract entity description in 'observation explanations.json'

[HieuPhan33]

Hi,

Thanks for sharing the works. I would like to apply your method on other disease classification datasets.
MedKLIP inputs a detailed description of a disease in 'observation explanations.json'.

Could you please share a code or tutorial to extract the explanations for a given observation 'X'?

Best regards.

[HieuPhan33]

I have done some research, and figured out how to query UMLS API: https://documentation.uts.nlm.nih.gov/rest/home.html.

But for one disease term, UMLS provides multiple related terms (could be up to 20). For example, "effusion", it returns "Otitis Media with Effusion", "Pleural Effusion, Malignant", "Hydrarthrosis", etc. I'm unsure how to filter out less relevant terms.

Could you please give me further guidance on how to create the observation dictionary from UMLS?