A decade of community-wide efforts in advancing medical image understanding and retrieval

Access to images in scientific publications overall and in the biomedical domain specifically, has long been established a desirable feature for services providing access to scientific literature [2,6]. Likewise, automatic identification of regions of interest in clinical images and image-based assisted diagnosis are widely recognized as a means for bringing potentially important health issues to clinicians’ attention [11]. The individual research efforts in addressing these needs were faced with the lack of resources for development and evaluation of image search engines and tools for understanding image content.

Source: Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics - January 1, 2015 Category: Radiology Authors: Dina Demner-Fushman, Sameer Antani, Jayashree Kalpathy-Cramer, Henning Müller Tags: Editorial Source Type: research