Khresmoi news

Khresmoi on TV

Wed, 24 Apr 2013 00:00:00 +0200

The Khresmoi search system is shown in part of this documentary (starting at 0:28), shown on Canal9 Valais (in French).

Participate in CLEF eHealth

Fri, 29 Mar 2013 00:00:00 +0100

Members of the Khresmoi project are contributing to organising the CLEF eHealth task. The task contains three subtasks:

identification of disorders from clinical reports and mapping of the SNOMED CT disorders to UMLS codes,
mapping abbreviations and acronyms in clinical reports to UMLS codes, and
information retrieval to address questions patients may have when reading clinical reports.

Participants can participate in as many subtasks as they wish. More information on the CLEF eHealth page.

Khresmoi in the ECR Today Magazine

Tue, 19 Mar 2013 00:00:00 +0100

An article on Khresmoi appeared in the ECR Today Magazine on the 11th of March 2013.

Khresmoi at the European Congress of Radiology (ECR)

Sat, 23 Feb 2013 00:00:00 +0100

The latest Khresmoi advances in radiology will be shown at the European Congress of Radiology (ECR), March 7-11, 2013 in Vienna, Austria.

A booth with demos will be at the ECR Imagine, Level 2, room U.

Listen to the talk on Patterns in radiology: spatio-temporal image analysis in research and clinical application, on Friday, March 8, 15:30–16:30 in room U.

Also visit the poster on Semantics in Radiology, Level 2, room A.

Demo videos of 2D and 3D image search

Tue, 19 Feb 2013 00:00:00 +0100

Demo videos of 2D image search and 3D image search technology developed in Khresmoi are available on YouTube.

PLOS article on GATE published

Sat, 09 Feb 2013 00:00:00 +0100

Getting More Out of Biomedical Documents with GATE's Full Lifecycle Open Source Text Analytics

by Hamish Cunningham, Valentin Tablan, Angus Roberts, and Kalina Bontcheva has been published in PLOS Computational Biology (open access).

Abstract:

This software article describes the GATE family of open source text analysis tools and processes. GATE is one of the most widely used systems of its type with yearly download rates of tens of thousands and many active users in both academic and industrial contexts. In this paper we report three examples of GATE-based systems operating in the life sciences and in medicine. First, in genome-wide association studies which have contributed to discovery of a head and neck cancer mutation association. Second, medical records analysis which has significantly increased the statistical power of treatment/outcome models in the UK's largest psychiatric patient cohort. Third, richer constructs in drug-related searching. We also explore the ways in which the GATE family supports the various stages of the lifecycle present in our examples. We conclude that the deployment of text mining for document abstraction or rich search and navigation is best thought of as a process, and that with the right computational tools and data collection strategies this process can be made defined and repeatable. The GATE research programme is now 20 years old and has grown from its roots as a specialist development tool for text processing to become a rather comprehensive ecosystem, bringing together software developers, language engineers and research staff from diverse fields. GATE now has a strong claim to cover a uniquely wide range of the lifecycle of text analysis systems. It forms a focal point for the integration and reuse of advances that have been made by many people (the majority outside of the authors' own group) who work in text processing for biomedicine and other areas. GATE is available online under GNU open source licences and runs on all major operating systems. Support is available from an active user and developer community and also on a commercial basis.

Khresmoi at the CeBIT

Thu, 03 Jan 2013 00:00:00 +0100

Khresmoi will be exhibiting at the CeBIT 2013 from 5-9 March in Hannover, Germany. Visit us at the EU Language & Big Data Projects stand at the CeBIT lab platform (Hall 9, Stand D25)

Health 2.0 Khresmoi presentation video

Wed, 19 Dec 2012 00:00:00 +0100

The video of the Khresmoi presentation at the Health 2.0 Europe Conference in Berlin is online.

Khresmoi in Health 2.0 News

Wed, 21 Nov 2012 00:00:00 +0100

Khresmoi is mentioned in the Health 2.0 News article on the Health 2.0 Europe Conference.

Khresmoi at the Health 2.0 Europe Conference

Sun, 04 Nov 2012 00:00:00 +0100

A demo of the Khresmoi system will be presented at the Health 2.0 Europe Conference in Berlin on Tuesday the 6th of November in the session on From Global Data to Unique Decisions – Part 2: Health Professionals between 11.15 and 12.30.

Khresmoi awards best paper prize at MCBR-CDS 2012 Workshop

Wed, 17 Oct 2012 00:00:00 +0200

The paper Skull Retrieval for Craniosynostosis Using Sparse Logistic Regression Models (Shulin Yang, Linda Shapiro, Michael Cunningham, Matthew Speltz, Craig Birgfeld, Indriyati Atmosukarto, Su-In Lee) was awarded the best paper prize at the Medical Content-based Retrieval for Clinical Decision Support Workshop (MCBR-CDS 2012) held at the MICCAI 2012. This prize was sponsored by the Khresmoi project. See: http://www.mcbr-cds.org/

Fourth Khresmoi Newsletter published

Fri, 05 Oct 2012 00:00:00 +0200

The fourth Khresmoi Newsletter is online. It gives an overview of the ezDL software, which forms the basis of the Khresmoi search interface, and describes the strategy adopted to evaluate the Khresmoi search engine. It also contains information on past and upcoming Khresmoi events.

Khresmoi at the RSNA 2012

Mon, 01 Oct 2012 00:00:00 +0200

The Khresmoi clinical radiology prototype will be demonstrated at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) in Chicago, USA from November 25th to 30th 2012. In addition to the complete system, a further exhibit will focus on the pathology retrieval. A third exhibit will detail the performance of various local image descriptors in the context of lung diseases.

META-NET Language Whitepapers released

Thu, 20 Sep 2012 00:00:00 +0200

META-NET has been working on a series of Language Whitepapers on "Europe’s Languages in the Digital Age." The series, covering 31 languages and with over 200 contributing authors is the result of a significant combined effort across the whole continent to document and state the case for Language Technology.

Take a look at the press release about the series, or download a whitepaper.

Norbert Fuhr presented with the Gerard Salton Award

Mon, 03 Sep 2012 00:00:00 +0200

Norbert Fuhr, Professor at the University of Duisburg-Essen, a partner in the Khresmoi project, was presented with the Gerard Salton Award at the SIGIR 2012 Conference. The award honours his pioneering, sustained, and continuing contributions to the theoretical foundations of information retrieval and database systems.

More information is available here.

MIE Tutorial slides online

Sun, 26 Aug 2012 00:00:00 +0200

The slides for the tutorial on Searching Text and Images in the Medical Domain held by Allan Hanbury and Henning Müller at the Medical Informatics Europe Conference on August 26th, 2012 are online.

Khresmoi at Medical Informatics Europe 2012

Wed, 18 Jul 2012 00:00:00 +0200

Khresmoi is again very visible at the Medical Informatics Europe Conference (MIE) held in Pisa, Italy from August 26th to Augist 29th 2012, with the following activities:

Khresmoi stand at the MIE Village of the Future
Participation in the MIE Village of the Future, including a presentation in the Village of the Future session on "People and Expectations" (Tuesday, August 28th, 9:15-10:45, Galilei Room) (Allan Hanbury)
Tutorial on Searching Text and Images in the Medical Domain (Sunday, August 26th, 13:00-16:00, Master Room) (Allan Hanbury, Henning Müller)
Oral presentation on Online health information search: what struggles and empowers the users? Results of an online survey (Tuesday, August 28th, 15:00, Galilei Room) (Natalia Pletneva)
Oral presentation on Trustworthiness and Relevance in Web-Based Clinical Question Answering (Wednesday, August 29th, 11:30, Auditorium) (Célia Boyer)
Poster presentation on A curated index of high-quality web resources for medical practitioners (Monday, August 27th, 13:00-14:00, Gallery) (Matthias Samwald)

Khresmoi is again very visible at the Medical Informatics Europe Conference (MIE) held in Pisa, Italy from August 26^th to August 29^th 2012, with the following activities:

Participation in the MIE Village of the Future, including a presentation in the MIE plenary sessions
Tutorial on Searching Text and Images in the Medical Domain (TUW, HES-SO)
Oral presentation on Online health information search: what struggles and empowers the users? Results of an online survey (HON)

Poster presentation on A curated index of high-quality web resources for medical practitioners (TUW)

Khresmoi on the Wolters Kluwer Intelligent Solutions Blog

Tue, 12 Jun 2012 00:00:00 +0200

There is a new post about Khresmoi on the Wolters Kluwer Intelligent Solutions Blog.

Khresmoi at Health 2.0 Europe

Wed, 16 May 2012 00:00:00 +0200

Khresmoi will be presented at the Health 2.0 Europe in Berlin on November 6-7 2012.

What is Health 2.0 Europe about? (from the Health 2.0 Europe website)
It’s about a new generation of entrepreneurs believing they can be the change they want to see in their health systems. It’s about engaging a deeper conversation and widening our perspective on today’s health eco-system: it’s not just about social media and communities, it’s also about patient-physician communication, system reform, data, analytics, population health management, personalized medicine, sensors/devices/unplatforms, wellness… The conference is about leveraging the international Health 2.0 community to promote cross-pollination of ideas and technology collaboration. It’s about start-ups leading the way into the future of healthcare!

Khresmoi at the LREC 2012

Wed, 09 May 2012 00:00:00 +0200

At the LREC 2012 conference, Khresmoi

has a booth at the EU Projects Village

presents in the EC Projects track on Thursday the 24th of May from 14:55-19:30

presents a paper in the Workshop on Collaborative Resource Development and Delivery on the 27th of May

Third Khresmoi newsletter published

Mon, 23 Apr 2012 00:00:00 +0200

The third Khresmoi newsletter is online. It covers the survey of medical information search requirements for physicians, and contains information on the latest version of the Mimir software as well as on past and upcoming Khresmoi events.

Anatomy Search Prototype Video

Fri, 16 Mar 2012 00:00:00 +0100

The video demonstrates fully automatic position estimate and anatomic structure retrieval. It is part of a retrieval pipeline for clinical image data developed in the Khresmoi project.

Based on this fast initial estimate and ranking of cases, subsequent processing and recognition steps are performed.

See the video on YouTube.

Summer School on Image Processing 2012

Fri, 16 Mar 2012 00:00:00 +0100

Khresmoi is co-organising the Summer School on Image Processing 2012 in Vienna, Austria from July 4th to July 13th 2012. This year, it will have a focus on medical image processing and analysis. Half of each day will be devoted to lectures, with the remaining time used for practical work on solving medical image analysis problems.

More information on this webpage: https://sites.google.com/site/ssip2012/

MCBR-CBS 2011 Workshop Proceedings available

Wed, 29 Feb 2012 00:00:00 +0100

The proceedings of the Second MICCAI Workshop on Medical Content-Based Retrieval for Clinical Decision Support, MCBR-CBS 2011, held in Toronto, Canada, in September 2011.

It contains a number of Khresmoi papers, and is co-edited by Henning Müller, Khresmoi Coordinator.

Khresmoi as EUresearch Switzerland Success Story

Mon, 27 Feb 2012 00:00:00 +0100

An article on Khresmoi was published by EUresearch Switzerland.

Four Khresmoi papers at the SPIE Medical Imaging Conference

Wed, 01 Feb 2012 00:00:00 +0100

The following 4 Khresmoi papers are being presented at the SPIE Medical Imaging Conference (4-9 February 2012):

Antonio Foncubierta, Adrien Depeursinge, Henning Müller, Cerebellum detection using 3D wavelet texture classification, SPIE medical imaging, San Diego, USA, 2012.

Dimitrios Markonis, Alba G. Seco de Herrera, Ivan Eggel, Henning Müller, Multi-scale visual words for hierarchical medical image categorization, SPIE medical imaging, San Diego, USA, 2011.

Sharib Ali, Antonio Foncubierta, Adrien Depeursinge, Fabrice Meriaudeau, Osman Ratib, Henning Müller, Synchronized slice viewing of similar image series, SPIE medical imaging, San Diego, USA, 2011.

Henning Müller, Jayashree Kalpathy-Cramer, Dina Demner-Fushman, Sameer Antani, Creating a classification of image types in the medical literature for visual categorization, SPIE medical imaging, San Diego, USA, 2012.

Khresmoi is co-organising the PROMISE Winter School

Wed, 14 Dec 2011 00:00:00 +0100

See the Winter School Website for more details.

Khresmoi distinction at the RSNA

Tue, 06 Dec 2011 00:00:00 +0100

The Khresmoi demo at the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) received the distinction of being invited for publication in the journal Radiographics.

Khresmoi at the RSNA 2011

Sun, 27 Nov 2011 00:00:00 +0100

The Khresmoi visual retrieval prototype for radiologists will be presented at the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) Annual Meeting from the 27th of November to the 2nd of December 2011. Visit the booth and also the presentation on the eye tracking experiments done with radiologists.

MedSearch demo available

Sat, 05 Nov 2011 00:00:00 +0100

The MedSearch demo developed within the Khresmoi project is online. It allows search through medical publications using both text and visual information.

A version of this demo for mobile devices is also available.

Second Khresmoi newsletter available

Sat, 27 Aug 2011 00:00:00 +0200

The second Khresmoi newsletter is online. It covers the surveys of medical information search requirements for the general public and radiologists.

Programme of the MICCAI MCBR-CDS workshop available

Wed, 24 Aug 2011 00:00:00 +0200

The programme of the MCBR-CDS Workshop (Medical Content-based Retrieval for Clinical Decision Support) at the MICCAI 2011 Conference is now available.

Four of the eleven presentations are on work done in KHRESMOI.

Radiology eye-tracking video available

Mon, 22 Aug 2011 00:00:00 +0200

A video showing the eye and mouse movements as a radiologist examines a knee MRI is available on YouTube.

More information is available in the following paper:
Sebastian Dungs, Markus Holzer, Dimitrios Markonis, Georg Langs, Sascha Kriewel, Henning Müller. Using eye tracking on a clinical viewing station to help investigate image search requirements of radiologists. RSNA 2011, Chicago, IL, USA, 2011.

as well as in Section 4 of Khresmoi Deliverable D9.1.

The video was created as a cooperation between KHRESMOI partners: Medical University of Vienna and University of Duisburg-Essen

KHRESMOI at the Medical Informatics Europe (MIE) 2011

Thu, 18 Aug 2011 00:00:00 +0200

Members of the KHRESMOI Consortium are organising the workshop "Aspects of Medical Information Search" at the MIE 2011. It takes place on Tuesday the 30th of August at 11.30 (Room N3 Bergen). Presenters are: Stefan Darmoni (University of Rouen, France), Célia Boyer (Health on the Net, Switzerland), Henning Müller (University of Applied Science Western Switzerland), and Patrick Ruch (University of Applied Science Western Switzerland), moderated by Allan Hanbury (Vienna University of Technology, Austria).

Furthermore, a paper describing the KHRESMOI project (An open, trustworthy and multilingual search engine for medical practitioners) will be presented by Matthias Samwald in the session on Wednesday the 31st of August at 12.30 (Room S4 Oslo).

Allan Hanbury will speak in the panel on "Towards 'Ideal Healthcare': optimised and personalised future medicine", Monday the 29th of August at 11.30 (Room N5 Lofoten).

Henning Müller will speak at the panel on translational medicine on Monday the 29th of August at 9.45 (room N3 Bergen) and the panel on medical image processing at 15.15 (room N6 Finmark).

Interactive demo session of medical retrieval systems at ImageCLEF 2011

Wed, 17 Aug 2011 00:00:00 +0200

This session is designed to foster research in Interactive Information Retrieval and user seeking behavior of medical images. Aspects that could be explored include the users' needs and behaviors when they search for medical images as well as comparison of different interfaces. Groups that are interested in testing the human computer interaction aspects of the image retrieval problem as well as researchers interested in exploring issues related to user seeking behavior are encouraged to participate.

It takes place on Wednesday 21.9. at 11h30 at the CLEF conference in Amsterdam.

For more information on the session, see: http://www.imageclef.org/2011/medicaluseroriented

The full ImageCLEF workshop programme is available here:
http://www.imageclef.org/2011/workshop

For more information on the CLEF conference, see: http://clef2011.org

Keynote at the Conference of the Spanish Society for Natural Language Processing

Wed, 17 Aug 2011 00:00:00 +0200

Henning Müller will hold a keynote talk at the Conference of the Spanish Society for Natural Language Processing, September 5-7, 2011.

KHRESMOI sponsors Winter School "Information Retrieval meets Information Visualization"

Tue, 14 Jun 2011 00:00:00 +0200

KHRESMOI will be sponsoring the PROMISE Winter School 2012 on Information Retrieval meets Information Visualization. It takes place in Zinal, Valais, Switzerland from 23 - 27 January 2012.

The aim of the PROMISE Winter School on information retrieval and information visualization is to give participants a grounding in the core topics that constitute the multidisciplinary area of Multilingual Information Retrieval. The school is a week-long event consisting of guest lectures from invited speakers who are recognized experts in the field. The School is intended for PhD students, Masters students or senior researchers such as post-doctoral researchers form the fields of information visualization and information retrieval and related fields.

See the Winter School Website for more details.

PROMISE Winter School 2012

Information Retrieval meets Information Visualization

Zinal, Valais - Switzerland
23 - 27 January 2012

KHRESMOI survey for medical doctors using search engines for health and medical information

Tue, 14 Jun 2011 00:00:00 +0200

The KHRESMOI survey to identify the needs and preferences of medical doctors using search engines for health and medical information is online. Available in English, French, German and Spanish.

Results of KHRESMOI requirement surveys available

Wed, 01 Jun 2011 00:00:00 +0200

Surveys of the medical information search requirements of the general public and radiologists have been conducted within the KHRESMOI project. The results are in Deliverables D8.1.1 and D9.1 on the Deliverables page.

The key findings are summarised on the Health on the Net page.

The survey on the requirements of physicians will be online soon.

KHRESMOI at the I-Healthcare Workshop

Tue, 31 May 2011 00:00:00 +0200

KHRESMOI was presented at the I-Healthcare workshop on Enabling 21st Century Healthcare by Advanced Informatics in Amsterdam on the 27th of May.

KHRESMOI survey on the medical information search needs of the general public

Tue, 05 Apr 2011 00:00:00 +0200

The KHRESMOI project is running a survey on the medical information search needs of the general public. Please fill it in and promote it. It is available in:

See also these instructions on how to promote it on your website.

CfP MCBR-CDS2011

Tue, 29 Mar 2011 00:00:00 +0200

MCBR-CDS 2011: Medical Content-based Retrieval for Clinical Decision Support

Call for papers

Diagnostic decision making (using images and other clinical data) is still very much an art for many physicians in their practices today due to a lack of quantitative tools and measurements. Traditionally, decision making has involved using evidence provided by the patient's data coupled with a physician's a priori experience of a limited number of similar cases. With advances in electronic patient record systems, a large number of pre-diagnosed patient data sets are now becoming available. These datasets are often multimodal consisting of images (x-ray, CT, MRI), videos and other time series, and textual data (free text reports and structured clinical data). Analyzing these multimodal sources for disease-specific information across patients can reveal important similarities between patients and hence their underlying diseases and potential treatments. Researchers are now beginning to use techniques of content-based retrieval to search for disease-specific information in modalities to find supporting evidence for a disease or to automatically learn associations of symptoms and diseases. Benchmarking frameworks such as ImageCLEF (Image retrieval track in the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum) have expanded over the past eight years to include large medical image collections for testing various algorithms for medical image retrieval. This has made comparisons of several techniques for visual, textual, and mixed medical information retrieval as well as for visual classification of medical data possible based on the same data and tasks.

The goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers in medical imaging, medical image retrieval, data mining, text retrieval, and machine learning/AI communities to discuss new techniques of multimodal mining/retrieval and their use in clinical decision support. We are looking for original, high-quality submissions that address innovative research and development in the analysis, search and retrieval of multimodal medical data for use in clinical decision support. Further, to encourage a larger group of image analysis researchers to profit from the databases and evaluations created in the context of ImageCLEF, groups can get access to ImageCLEF 2011 images of the biomedical literature when registering.

Topics of interests include but are not limited to:

Image analysis of multimodal medical data (X-ray, MRI, CT, echo videos, time series data)
Machine learning of disease correlations in multimodal data
Algorithms for indexing and retrieval of data from multimodal medical databases
Disease model-building and clinical decision support systems based on multimodal analysis
Algorithms for medical image retrieval or classification
Systems of retrieval or classification using the ImageCLEF collection

Special Issue CFP

Tue, 22 Feb 2011 00:00:00 +0100

Call for papers for a special topic section in Methods of Information in Medicine

Health on the Net Survey

Sun, 23 Jan 2011 00:00:00 +0100

Health on the Net is looking for people to take part in a survey on medical search engine use for the Khresmoi project. More information here.

Khresmoi Discussion Group

Mon, 03 Jan 2011 00:00:00 +0100

Join the Khresmoi discussion @ linkedin

First Khresmoi Newsletter

Wed, 01 Dec 2010 00:00:00 +0100

The first Newsletter with a review of the Kick-Off Meeting is available for download here.

Kick-off Meeting Images and Videos Available

Mon, 22 Nov 2010 00:00:00 +0100

Images and Videos of the Khresmoi kick-off meeting are available.