Medical literature retrieval.

Automated medical literature retrieval.

BACKGROUND The constantly growing publication rate of medical research articles puts increasing pressure on medical specialists who need to be aware of the recent developments in their field. The currently used literature retrieval systems allow researchers to find specific papers; however the search task is still repetitive and time-consuming. AIM In this paper we describe a system that retr...

Medical literature retrieval.

Performance Evaluation of Medical Image Retrieval Systems Based on a Systematic Review of the Current Literature

Background and Aim: Image, as a kind of information vehicle which can convey a large volume of information, is important especially in medicine field. Existence of different attributes of image features and various search algorithms in medical image retrieval systems and lack of an authority to evaluate the quality of retrieval systems, make a systematic review in medical image retrieval system...

Descriptor and citation retrieval in the Medical Behavioral Sciences literature: Retrieval overlaps and novelty distribution

Search results for nine topics in the Medical Behavioral Sciences are reanalyzed to compare the overall performance of descriptor and citation search strategies in identifying relevant and novel documents. Overlap percentages between an aggregate "descriptor-based" database (MEDLINE, EXCERPTA MEDICA, PSYCINFO) and an aggregate "citation-based" database (SCISEARCH, SOCIAL SCISEARCH) ranged from ...

Leveraging medical thesauri and physician feedback for improving medical literature retrieval for case queries

OBJECTIVE This paper presents a study of methods for medical literature retrieval for case queries, in which the goal is to retrieve literature articles similar to a given patient case. In particular, it focuses on analyzing the performance of state-of-the-art general retrieval methods and improving them by the use of medical thesauri and physician feedback. MATERIALS AND METHODS The Kullback...