Query expansion with a medical ontology to improve a multimodal information retrieval system

Authors:
M. C. Díaz-Galiano;M.T Martín-Valdivia;L. A. Ureña-López
Affiliations:
Departamento de Informática, Campus Las Lagunillas, s/n. University of Jaén, Jaén E-23071 Spain;Departamento de Informática, Campus Las Lagunillas, s/n. University of Jaén, Jaén E-23071 Spain;Departamento de Informática, Campus Las Lagunillas, s/n. University of Jaén, Jaén E-23071 Spain
Venue:
Computers in Biology and Medicine
Year:
2009

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Abstract

Searching biomedical information in a large collection of medical data is a complex task. The use of tools and biomedical resources could ease the retrieval of the information desired. In this paper, we use the medical ontology MeSH to improve a Multimodal Information Retrieval System by expanding the user's query with medical terms. In order to accomplish our experiments, we have used the dataset provided by ImageCLEFmed task organizers for years 2005 and 2006. This dataset is composed of a multimodal collection (images and text) of clinical cases, a list of queries for each year, and a list of relevance judgments for each query to evaluate the results. The results from the experiments show that the use of a medical ontology to expand the queries greatly improves the results.