UMLS-based Automatic Image Indexing.

Sneiderman CA, Demner-Fushman D, Fung KW, Bray B

AMIA Annu Symp Proc; 2008 Nov 8-12; Washington DC. p. 1141.

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Abstract:

To date, most accurate image retrieval techniques rely on textual descriptions of images. Our goal is to automatically generate indexing terms for an image extracted from a biomedical article by identifying Unified Medical Language System (UMLS) concepts in image caption and its discussion in the text. In a pilot evaluation of the suggested image indexing method by five physicians, a third of the automatically identified index terms were found suitable for indexing.

Sneiderman CA, Demner-Fushman D, Fung KW, Bray B. UMLS-based Automatic Image Indexing. 
AMIA Annu Symp Proc; 2008 Nov 8-12; Washington DC. p. 1141.

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