Newswise — The American Roentgen Ray Society has launched a search engine for radiology images. GoldMinerâ„¢ provides instant access to images published in selected peer-reviewed radiology journals. This new, web-based system allows viewers to search for images by findings, anatomy, imaging technique, and patient age and sex.
Unlike most Internet search engines, GoldMinerâ„¢ understands medical vocabulary. It uses sophisticated techniques to discover medical concepts in free-text figure captions, and uses that information to quickly retrieve relevant images.
GoldMinerâ„¢ recognizes abbreviations, synonyms, and kinds of diseases. Not only does it know that "renal calculi" and "kidney stones" mean the same thing, it knows that renal calculi are a type of kidney disease. Each entry includes a small "thumbnail" image that points to the full-size image at the original article's web site. Viewers can link to the full text of the article as well.
"The images published in our major radiology journals are a treasure trove for radiologists -- not only for assembling a lecture, but also to help in our clinical work," said Charles E. Kahn, Jr., MD, a creator of GoldMinerâ„¢. "Until now, there hasn't been an easy way to search for images across different journals. Regular search engines, such as Google Images, often find images that aren't high quality and aren't relevant to radiology," he said. "GoldMiner is more like PubMed for images: it searches by meaning, not just strings of letters."
For more information about GoldMinerâ„¢, go to http://www.arrs.org or http://www.ajronline.org.
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