Abstract:The Swinfen Charitable Trust (SCT) provides an e-referral service for health practitioners in developing countries. Referral messages and responses are passed by email. We have developed a Web-based system to facilitate information retrieval from these messages and multimedia data mining. The system contains a search engine which implements full text searching, together with nearness-based retrieval. In pilot testing, cases with relatively high nearness ranking were reasonably near to the query cases. In addit… Show more
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