Inter-media concept-based medical image indexing and retrieval with UMLS at IPAL

  • Caroline Lacoste
  • , Jean Pierre Chevallet
  • , Joo Hwee Lim
  • , Diem Thi Hoang Le
  • , Wei Xiong
  • , Daniel Racoceanu
  • , Roxana Teodorescu
  • , Nicolas Vuillenemot

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Abstract

We promote the use of explicit medical knowledge to solve retrieval of information both visual and textual. For text, this knowledge is a set of concepts from a Meta-thesaurus, the Unified Medical Language System (UMLS). For images, this knowledge is a set of semantic features that are learned from examples using SVM within a structured learning framework. Image and text index are represented in the same way: a vector of concepts. The use of concepts allows the expression of a common index form: an inter-media index, offering the opportunity of homogeneous indexing/querying time fusion techniques. Top results obtained with concept based approaches show the potential of conceptual indexing.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationEvaluation of Multilingual and Multi-modal Information Retrieval - 7th Workshop of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum, CLEF 2006, Revised Selected Papers
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages694-701
Number of pages8
ISBN (Print)9783540749981
DOIs
StatePublished - 2007
Externally publishedYes
Event7th Workshop of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum, CLEF 2006 - Alicante, Spain
Duration: 20 Sep 200622 Sep 2006

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume4730 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference7th Workshop of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum, CLEF 2006
Country/TerritorySpain
CityAlicante
Period20/09/0622/09/06

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