Title
Classification of CT Figures in Biomedical Articles Based on Body Segments
Abstract
Figures in biomedical articles provide important information that can be utilized to enrich user experience in biomedical article retrieval. One method to improve retrieval performance is to categorize figures into various modalities. We have previously used a hierarchical classification strategy that significantly improves retrieval performance. In this paper, we extend the hierarchy and add body segment classification, i.e., classifying the figures in CT (computed tomography) modality into different body segments, such as head, abdomen, pelvis, or thorax. To address the large variety of article images, we extracted a wide set of feature types (feature vector length of 2321) and applied a multi-class SVM classifier. Feature selection was applied to reduce the feature vector to length 50. Evaluation of the proposed method on a dataset consisting of 2465 figures from a subset of open access biomedical articles from the National Library of Medicine's (NLM) PubMed Central® repository achieves classification accuracy of over 90%. This demonstrates its effectiveness and potential to become a vital component in biomedical document retrieval systems such as OpenI, a multimodal biomedical literature search system developed at NLM.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1109/ICHI.2013.17
ICHI
Keywords
Field
DocType
medical information systems,biomedical article retrieval,computerised tomography,feature type extraction,feature vector,biomedical article,feature type,openi,pattern classification,body segments,information retrieval,biomedical articles,biomedical document retrieval system,retrieval performance,content-based image retrieval,figure classification,feature extraction,ct figures,ct modality,nlm pubmed central repository,image retrieval,national library of medicine,biomedical document retrieval systems,ct image classification,body segment classification,article images,user experience,multimodal biomedical literature search system,classification accuracy,multiclass svm classifier,multimodal biomedical literature search,ct figure classification,feature selection,special libraries,feature vector length,computed tomography modality,hierarchical classification strategy,content-based retrieval,support vector machines,open access biomedical articles
Feature vector,User experience design,Pattern recognition,Information retrieval,Feature selection,Computer science,Support vector machine,Image retrieval,Feature extraction,Artificial intelligence,Document retrieval,Content-based image retrieval
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
9
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Zhiyun Xue124522.97
Sameer Antani21402134.03
L. Rodney Long353456.98
Dina Demner Fushman41717147.70
George R. Thoma51207132.81