Revision of ImageCLEF 2008: Medical Retrieval Task from Fri, 02/29/2008 - 19:52

The medical retrieval task of ImageCLEF2008 will be run in a manner similar to ImageCLEF2005-2007 (http://ir.ohsu.edu/image/)

However, we will be using a different database this year.
We finally obtained the rights to use a subset of the Goldminer collection for 2008. More information on goldminer can be found at: http://goldminer.arrs.org/

The subset used contains all images from articles published in Radiology and Radiographics including the text of the captions and a link to the html of the full text articles.

Our database distribution will include an xml file with the image id, the captions of the images, the titles of the journal articles in which the image had appeared and the PubMed ID of the journal article. In addition, a compressed file containing the approximately 66,000 images will be provided.

Participants will need to sign a EULA agreement prior to obtaining the database.

We will also make available a consolidated collection containing the 2005-2007 image collections, the topics and qrel files.

Our foreseen timing is:
20.2.2008: inscription form CLEF
15.3.2008: release of the dataset
15.4.2008: release of the topics

More information will be posted on these web pages shortly.