Abstract—Breast cancer is the leading cause of cancer mortality in women between the ages of 15 and 54. During mammography screening, radiologists use a strict lexicon (BI-RADS) ...
Houssam Nassif, Ryan Woods, Elizabeth S. Burnside,...
In the CLEF 2005 Ad-Hoc Track we experimented with language-specific morphosyntactic processing and light Natural Language Processing (NLP) for the retrieval of Bulgarian, French,...
Christina Lioma, Craig Macdonald, Ben He, Vassilis...
cally identifying clinically relevant aspects of MEDLINE abstracts. These extracted elements serve as the input to an algorithm that scores the relevance of citations with respect ...
The classical Probability Ranking Principle (PRP) forms the theoretical basis for probabilistic Information Retrieval (IR) models, which are dominating IR theory since about 20 ye...
Substantial medical data, such as discharge summaries and operative reports are stored in electronic textual form. Databases containing free-text clinical narratives reports often...