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

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

  • Affiliations:
  • IPAL International Joint Lab, Institute for Infocomm Research, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Singapore;IPAL International Joint Lab, Institute for Infocomm Research, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Singapore;IPAL International Joint Lab, Institute for Infocomm Research, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Singapore;IPAL International Joint Lab, Institute for Infocomm Research, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Singapore;IPAL International Joint Lab, Institute for Infocomm Research, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Singapore;IPAL International Joint Lab, Institute for Infocomm Research, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Singapore;IPAL International Joint Lab, Institute for Infocomm Research, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Singapore;IPAL International Joint Lab, Institute for Infocomm Research, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Singapore

  • Venue:
  • CLEF'06 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Cross-Language Evaluation Forum: evaluation of multilingual and multi-modal information retrieval
  • Year:
  • 2006

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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.