Ontology-guided organ detection to retrieve web images of disease manifestation: towards the construction of a consumer-based health image library.
Visual information is a crucial aspect of medical knowledge. Building a comprehensive medical image base, in the spirit of the Unified Medical Language System (UMLS), would greatly benefit patient education and self-care. However, collection and annotation of such a large-scale image base is challenging.
Author(s): Chen, Yang, Ren, Xiaofeng, Zhang, Guo-Qiang, Xu, Rong
DOI: 10.1136/amiajnl-2012-001380