title: Mobile medical visual information retrieval.
abstract: In this paper, we propose mobile access to peer-reviewed medical information based on textual search and content-based visual image retrieval. Web-based interfaces designed for limited screen space were developed to query via web services a medical information retrieval engine optimizing the amount of data to be transferred in wireless form. Visual and textual retrieval engines with state-of-the-art performance were integrated. Results obtained show a good usability of the software. Future use in clinical environments has the potential of increasing quality of patient care through bedside access to the medical literature in context.
authors.affiliation: MedGIFT Research Group, Business Information Systems, University of Applied Sciences, Valais, Switzerland. adrien.depeursinge@hevs.ch
authors.forename: Adrien
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Depeursinge
authors.forename: Samuel
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Duc
authors.forename: Ivan
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Eggel
authors.forename: Henning
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Müller
mesh_terms: D000043:Abstracting and Indexing; D040421:Cell Phone; D003195:Computer Communication Networks; D006801:Humans; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval / Q000379:methods*; D008491:Medical Informatics Applications; D017216:Telemedicine / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods*