ABOUT GAMUTS.NET

The "gamuts.net" web site lets you navigate the Radiology Gamuts Ontology (RGO), a knowledge resource for radiology diagnosis. RGO hosts more than 2,000 differential-diagnosis listings for imaging findings in all body systems. You can view all of the causes of an finding, then click on one of the diagnoses to view all of the findings that it causes.

 

STATISTICS

• 16,839 entities
• 12,822 "causes" (conditions that cause findings)
• 4,691 "effects" (e.g., imaging findings)


• 1,790 hierarchical ("is-a") links
• 55,619 causal ("may-cause") links

 

PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Charles E. Kahn, Jr., MD, MS

CONTRIBUTORS

Dhiraj Baruah, MD

Joseph J. Budovec, MD

Ross W. Filice, MD

Michael T. Finke, DO

Stephen W. Goth, MD

Cesar A. Lam, MD

Kaushik Shahir, MD

Matthew W. Shore, MD

Kenneth Wang, MD

 

PUBLICATIONS

• Radiology Gamuts Ontology: PubMed collection

 

REFERENCE SOURCES

• Maurice M. Reeder (editor), with William G. Bradley, Jr. and Christopher R. Merritt. Gamuts in Radiology 4.0 Web Version: Comprehensive Lists of Imaging Differential Diagnoses 2003.
• Hooshang Taybi and Ralph S. Lachman. Radiology of Syndromes, Metabolic Disorders, and Skeletal Dysplasias, 4th ed. 1996.
• Wolfgang Dähnert. Radiology Review Manual, 7th ed., revised 2011.
• Maurice M. Reeder (editor), with William G. Bradley, Jr. and Christopher R. Merritt. Reeder and Felson's Gamuts in Radiology: Comprehensive Lists of Roentgen Differential Diagnosis, 4th ed. 2003.
• Ralph S. Lachman. Taybi and Lachman's Radiology of Syndromes, Metabolic Disorders and Skeletal Dysplasias, 5e 2006.