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- Title
Shangri-La: A medical case-based retrieval tool.
- Authors
Seco de Herrera, Alba G.; Schaer, Roger; Müller, Henning
- Abstract
Large amounts of medical visual data are produced in hospitals daily and made available continuously via publications in the scientific literature, representing the medical knowledge. However, it is not always easy to find the desired information and in clinical routine the time to fulfil an information need is often very limited. Information retrieval systems are a useful tool to provide access to these documents/images in the biomedical literature related to information needs of medical professionals. Shangri-La is a medical retrieval system that can potentially help clinicians to make decisions on difficult cases. It retrieves articles from the biomedical literature when querying a case description and attached images. The system is based on a multimodal retrieval approach with a focus on the integration of visual information connected to text. The approach includes a query-adaptive multimodal fusion criterion that analyses if visual features are suitable to be fused with text for the retrieval. Furthermore, image modality information is integrated in the retrieval step. The approach is evaluated using the ImageCLEFmed 2013 medical retrieval benchmark and can thus be compared to other approaches. Results show that the final approach outperforms the best multimodal approach submitted to ImageCLEFmed 2013.
- Subjects
DIAGNOSTIC imaging; EXPERIMENTAL design; INFORMATION retrieval; MEDICAL literature; USER interfaces; WORLD Wide Web; DECISION making in clinical medicine
- Publication
Journal of the Association for Information Science & Technology, 2017, Vol 68, Issue 11, p2587
- ISSN
2330-1635
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/asi.23858