A comprehensive set of radiology terms for use in radiology reporting, decision support, data mining, data registries, education and research.

RadLex provides the foundation for vital data resources used in radiology:

• The LOINC/RSNA Radiology Playbook
• RadElement Common Data Elements -RadReport Radiology Reporting Templates

The development of RadLex has been supported by the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB) and the cancer Biomedical Informatics Grid (caBIG) project.

Prefix

radlex

Keywords

anatomy biomedical science clinical studies diagnosis medical imaging medical informatics ontology radiology

Version

4.1

License

http://www.rsna.org/uploadedFiles/RSNA/Content/Informatics/RadLex_License_Agreement_and_Terms_of_Use_V2_Final.pdf

Links

Homepage OWL

Contact

Radiological Society of North America

Pattern for Local Unique Identifiers

Local identifiers in RSNA Informatics RadLex should match this regular expression:
^RID\d+$

Example Local Unique Identifier

RID1   Resolve

Pattern for CURIES

Compact URIs (CURIEs) constructed from RSNA Informatics RadLex should match this regular expression:
^radlex:RID\d+$

Example CURIE

radlex:RID1

Publications

• 2009 The IR Radlex Project: an interventional radiology lexicon--a collaborative project of the Radiological Society of North America and the Society of Interventional Radiology
• 2008 The IR RadLex project: an interventional radiology lexicon--a collaborative project of the Radiological Society of North America and the Society of Interventional Radiology
• 2000 Radiology lexicon

Contributors

• submitter Charles Tapley Hoyt   0000-0003-4423-4370   cthoyt

A summary of the relations in the Bioregistry schema can be found here.

In Collection

FHIR External Terminologies

The metaregistry provides mappings between the Bioregistry and other registries. There are 4 mappings to external registries for this resource with 3 unique external prefixes.

A provider turns a local unique identifiers from a resource into a URI. Many providers are also resolvable as URLs (i.e., they can be used in a web browser).

The local unique identifier RID1 is used to demonstrate the providers available for RSNA Informatics RadLex. A guide for curating additional providers can be found here.