Krauthammer Lab

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.