Title
MedICaT: A Dataset of Medical Images, Captions, and Textual References
Abstract
Understanding the relationship between figures and text is key to scientific document understanding. Medical figures in particular are quite complex, often consisting of several subfigures (75% of figures in our dataset), with detailed text describing their content. Previous work studying figures in scientific papers focused on classifying figure content rather than understanding how images relate to the text. To address challenges in figure retrieval and figure-to-text alignment, we introduce MedICaT, a dataset of medical images in context. MedICaT consists of 217K images from 131K open access biomedical papers, and includes captions, inline references for 74% of figures, and manually annotated subfigures and subcaptions for a subset of figures. Using MedICaT, we introduce the task of subfigure to subcaption alignment in compound figures and demonstrate the utility of inline references in image-text matching. Our data and code can be accessed at https://github.com/allenai/medicat.
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.18653/V1/2020.FINDINGS-EMNLP.191
EMNLP
DocType
Citations 
PageRank 
Conference
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
9
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Sanjay Subramanian113.78
Lucy Lu Wang2104.74
Sachin Mehta300.34
Ben Bogin4204.06
Madeleine van Zuylen571.48
Sravanthi Parasa600.34
Sameer Singh7106071.63
Matthew Gardner870438.49
Hannaneh Hajishirzi941746.10