Overview of the ImageCLEFmed 2008 medical image retrieval task

Henning Müller, Jayashree Kalpathy-Cramer, Charles E. Kahn, William Hatt, Steven Bedrick, William Hersh

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Abstract

The medical image retrieval task of ImageCLEF is in its fifth year and participation continues to increase to a total of 37 registered research groups. About half the registered groups finally submit results. Main change in 2008 was the use of a new databases containing images of the medical scientific literature (articles from the Journals Radiology and Radiographics). Besides the images, the figure captions and the part of the caption referring to a particular sub-figure were supplied as well as access to the full text articles in html. All texts were in English and the topics were supplied in German, French, and English. 30 topics were made available, ten of each of the categories visual, mixed, semantic. Most groups concentrated on fully automatic retrieval. Only three groups submitted a total of six manual or interactive runs not showing an increase of performance over automatic approaches. In previous years, multi-modal combinations were the most frequent submissions but in 2008 text only runs were clearly higher. Only very few fully visual runs were submitted and non of the fully visual runs had an extremely good performance. Part of these tendencies might be due to semantic topics and the extremely well annotated database. Best results regarding MAP were similar for textual and multi-modal approaches whereas early precision was better for some multi-modal approaches.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationEvaluating Systems for Multilingual and Multimodal Information Access - 9th Workshop of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum, CLEF 2008, Revised Selected Papers
Pages512-522
Number of pages11
DOIs
StatePublished - 2009
Event9th Workshop of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum, CLEF 2008 - Aarhus, Denmark
Duration: Sep 17 2008Sep 19 2008

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume5706 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Other

Other9th Workshop of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum, CLEF 2008
Country/TerritoryDenmark
CityAarhus
Period9/17/089/19/08

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Theoretical Computer Science
  • General Computer Science

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