FYI - introducing the YIF. The Yale Image Finder
Summary: The Yale Image Finder (YIF) is a publicly accessible search engine featuring a new way of retrieving biomedical images and associated papers based on the text carried inside the images. Image queries can also be issued against the image caption, as well as words in the associated paper abstract and title. A typical search scenario using YIF is as follows: A user provides few search keywords and the most relevant images are returned and presented in the form of thumbnails.
Users can click on an image to retrieve the high resolution image. In addition, the search engine will provide 2 types of related images: Those that appear in the same paper, and those from other papers with similar content. Retrieved images link back to their source papers, allowing users to find related papers starting with an image of interest. Currently, YIF has indexed 140,000 images from 34,000 public-access biomedical journal papers.
July 13th, 2008 at 9:50 pm
Promising and handsome. But not yet at “the most relevant images are returned” stage for sure. I tried, “amyotrophic lateral sclerosis,” and was given as one of the results “Investigation of geo-spatial hotspots for the occurrence of tuberculosis in Almora district, India, using GIS…”
But a worthy effort and well worth a look by medical librarians.