Due to the increasing amount of medical patient data collected in hospitals, technology-based methods are of increasing interest for processing and analyzing such materials. Therefore, computer supported techniques have to be evaluated by means of their efficiency for this application area. In...

During the evaluation of Information Retrieval Algorithms, measurements are often made against a Gold Standard. Since the construction of such a Gold Standard requires considerable resources, a high validity and a high degree of reusability would be an advantage. From a scientific point of view,...

Although we live in the age of multimedia, most information is still only available in text format. This is especially true in medical informatics. Consequently, research in text mining is an essential area of computer science. With the aid of statistic and linguistic procedures, text mining...

Smart information retrieval systems are becoming increasingly prevalent due to the rate at which the amount of digitized raw data has increased, and continues to increase. This is especially true in the medical domain, as there is much data stored in unstructured formats which contain "hidden"...