The medical retrieval task of ImageCLEF2009 will be use a similar database to 2008 but instead of responding to precise information needs, similar cases will need to be found.
The dataset 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. Over 70,000 images are currently available in this way.
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 over 70,000 images will be provided.
Participants will need to sign a EULA agreement prior to obtaining the database.
Our foreseen timing is:
31.1.2009: inscription for CLEF
1.4.2009: release of the data set
20.4.2009: release of the topics
1.6.2009: Submission deadline for runs
15.7.2009: end of the relevance judgment process
20.7.2009: distribution of results to the participants
15.8.2009: submission deadline for working notes papers
16.9.2009: pre-CLEF workshop on visual information retrieval evaluation
17.-19.9.2009: CLEF workshop
Data Download
Data Submission
Please ensure that your submissions are compliant with the trec format prior to submission.
We will reject any runs that do not meet the required format.
Also, please note that each group is allowed a maximum of 10 runs. The qrels will be distributed among the participants, so
further runs can be evaluated for the working notes papers by the participants.
At the time of submission, the following information about each run will be requested. Please let us know if you would like clarifications on how to classify your runs.
1. What was used for the retrieval: Image, text or mixed
2. Was other training data used?
3. Run type: Automatic, Manual, Interactive
4. Query Language