OVERVIEW
The purpose of this page is to track CRG priorities and work related to review and clean up of the observable entity hierarchy as it related to the following kinds of perception:
- visual perception (seeing)
- auditory perception (hearing)
- gustatory perception (tasting)
- olfactory perception (smelling)
- tactile perception (touching)
Activities To Date:
Uma Vaidyanathan led the review of sensory and perception concepts in the |Observable entity (observable entity) | hierarchy, including review of the gold standard textbook written on Sensation and Perception (add link here). Piper Allyn Ranallo reviewed and harmonized the definitions of concepts in the UMLS (add link here, add artifacts below). The team created graphics depicting current and proposed concepts for perception, sensation, and integrated sensory perception (add links for graphics here).
Immediate Next Steps (in process)
- The CRG is working with Daniel Karlsson to understand what changes are required in the the observable entity hierarchy
- Requesting editorial guidance around modeling functions, processes and states in the observable entity hierarchy
- The CRG is working to understand the distinction between processes modeled in the | Process (qualifier value)| and |Process (observable entity)| hierarchies
FUNCTIONS, PROCESSES AND OTHER OBSERVABLE ENTITIES
Modality | Unqualified Function | Perception Function | Sensation Function | Unqualified Observable of (sensation of) | Sensory Function Status | Ability to / Ability to sense |
Hear | Hearing function | no concept | no concept | Hearing observable | Sensory function status: hearing | Ability to hear |
See | Visual function | Visual perception function | no concept | Vision observable | Sensory function status: vision | Ability to see |
Smell | Sense of smell function | no concept | no concept | no concept | Sensory function status: taste and smell | Ability to smell |
Taste | Taste function | no concept | no concept | no concept | Sensory function status: taste and smell | Ability to taste |
Touch | no concept | Touch perception1 | Touch sensation1 | Observable of sensation of touch | Sensory function status: cutaneous | Ability to sense touch |
1 Function is implied based on parent concept (|Function (observable entity)|
| X Function | Any function involved in sensation (sensory transduction and transmission of sensory information to brain) and perception (generation of mental representation) of stimuli in the particular sensory modality |
| X Sensation Function | Sensory transduction and transmission of sensory information to brain in the particular sensory modality |
| X Perception Function | Generation of mental representation of real or imagined sensory stimulus in the particular sensory modality |
| Observable of (sensation of) X | Observable of any function related to sensation and perception of stimuli in the particular sensory modality
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| Sensory function status: X |  AMBIGUOUS |
| Status (quality) |
Questions
Do concepts where the FSN has the term 'function' qualified only by the sensory modality term (i.e., hearing function, visual function) refer to any function
update sensoriperception function? If so, consider
Figure 1: Current State - SNOMED International Daily Build 2021.01.20
ABILITY OBSERVABLES
| Modality | Parent observable type | FSN |
|---|---|---|
| vision (seeing) | function | |
| audition (hearing) | function | |
tactile (touch) AND subtypes of touch (temperature, vibration) | function | include term 'sense' |
| olfaction (smell) | observable | |
| gustation (taste) | observable |