Posts tagged ‘YIF’

Yale Image Finder featured in BioInform

From the BioInform article (Subscription only, but click through the google search to read):

Researchers at Yale University have added a new tool to the biological literature-mining arsenal that allows users to retrieve images from published papers by searching the text within the figures — an approach that differs from other image-retrieval methods that rely on captions or other descriptions of the image.
“There is a lot of information in the image itself that you can only access using a system like [the one] we have developed, where you can peek inside the image,” said Michael Krauthammer, an assistant professor at Yale University School of Medicine’s department of pathology, who is the principal investigator of the project that led to Yale Image Finder, or YIF.

Introducing Yale Image Finder (YIF)

We have recently released a new biomedical image search engine we call YIF. You can access it at:

http://krauthammerlab.med.yale.edu/imagefinder

You can search the actual image content of over 34,000 Open Access articles from PubMed Central. We use OCR with different levels of image correction (article and corpus) for highly accurate image text extraction.

For more details about our algorithms, we have a paper in Bioinformatics titled “Yale Image Finder (YIF): a new search engine for retrieving biomedical images“.