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Capturing and Relating Multilingual Clinical Cases

Author(s):
Bulcao-Neto, Renato de Freitas [1] ; Camacho Guerrero, Jose Antonio [1] ; Schor, Paulo [2] ; Lopes, Alessandra Stanquini [2] ; Dutra, Marcio Branquinho [3] ; Macedo, Alessandra Alaniz [4]
Total Authors: 6
Affiliation:
[1] Innolut Sistemas Informat, Ribeirao Preto, SP - Brazil
[2] Univ Fed Sao Paulo, Dept Oftalmol, Sao Paulo - Brazil
[3] Univ Sao Paulo, Programa Interunidades Posgrad Bioinformat, BR-14049 Ribeirao Preto, SP - Brazil
[4] Univ Sao Paulo, Dept Computacao & Matemat, BR-14049 Ribeirao Preto, SP - Brazil
Total Affiliations: 4
Document type: Journal article
Source: JOURNAL OF UNIVERSAL COMPUTER SCIENCE; v. 20, n. 9, p. 1154-1173, 2014.
Web of Science Citations: 0
Abstract

Recent studies reveal that the Internet use has grown tremendously in the past few years, most rapidly in non-English-speaking regions. However, this scenario creates a demand for innovative information retrieval services to better support a world wide community. This paper presents the MedLink linking service, which automatically identifies semantic relationships among multilingual clinical cases and makes them available to users as hyperlinks. As a proof of concept, we also present an experiment relating multilingual clinical cases in Ophthalmology, where the relationships created by MedLink were qualitatively analyzed by a Faculty with strong Ophthalmology background. Analysis results are described in terms of the completeness and the fidelity of the relationships created, which can be most useful in a globalized world for several purposes including research, teaching, and presurgical decision making. (AU)