The MedGIFT Group at ImageCLEF 2009

MedGIFT is a medical imaging research group of the Geneva University Hospitals and the University of Geneva, Switzerland. Since 2004, the medGIFT group has participated in the ImageCLEF benchmark each year, focusing mainly on the medical imaging tasks. For the medical image retrieval task, two existing retrieval engines were used: the GNU Image Finding Tool (GIFT) as image retrieval engine and Apache Lucene as textual retrieval engine. To improve the retrieval performance, automatic query expansion was used. In total, 13 runs were submitted as well for the image

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2009
• Where: CLEF
• Authors: Xin Zhou, Ivan Eggel, Henning Müller
• Keywords: CLEF 2009, Image Retrieval, Information Technology, Medical Imaging, Retrieval Engine