This paper describes the participation of Tel Aviv University Medical Image Processing Laboratory group at the ImageClef 2008 medical retrieval and medical annotation tasks. In both tasks we have used the bag-of-words approach for image representation. We submitted two purely visual automatic runs to the medical retrieval task, which used different normalization in the feature extraction stage....

4 Authors: Mia Ericson, Michelle A Sama and Hermes H. Yeh. 5 Address: Institution for Neuroscience and Physiology, Section Psychiatry and 6 Neurochemistry, University of Gothenburg, PO Box 410, Göteborg 405 30, Sweden; 7 Department of Physiology, Dartmouth Medical School, One Medical Center Drive, 8 Lebanon, NH 03756. 9 10 Corresponding Author: Dr. Hermes H. Yeh, Department of Physiology, Dartm...

Medical language, as many technical languages, is rich with morphologically complex words, many of which take their roots in Greek and Latin-in which case they are called neoclassical compounds. Morphosemantic analysis can help generate definitions of such words. This paper reports work on the adaptation of a morphosemantic analyzer dedicated to French (DériF) to analyze English medical neoclas...

avesta is the oldest written text remained and extant from iranian old languages. it comprises of a collection of thousands of words and expressions covering almost all fields of religion and the culture of ancient human beings. with regard to what is left of avesta, the contents of the twenty-one nasks (“books”) remained from the sasanian period, and the documents existing in other books perti...