Abstract:The proposed PhD project addresses the problem of finding descriptions of diseases or patients' health records that are relevant for a given description of patient's symptoms, also known as medical case retrieval (MCR). Designing an automatic multimodal MCR system applicable to general medical data sets still presents an open research problem, as indicated by the ImageCLEF 2013 MCR challenge, where the best submitted runs achieved only moderate retrieval performance and used purely textual techniques. This pro… Show more
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