iMED : An Intelligent Medical Web Search Engine

11-07-2012

Presented By ABHILASH B S S7 CSE 09419001 PAACET

INTRODUCTION
Search engine which help Internet users to

search for medical information

Uses domain-specific medical knowledge Several key techniques to improve usability

and search result quality

BASIC CONCEPTS
Clustering : Grouping of similar objects

Agglomerative Hierarchical Clustering Divisive

Agglomerative : Fusion of n objects into

groups
Divisive

finer

: Seperating n objects into groupings

Divisive p,q,r,s,t

Agglomerative

p,q

r,s,t

s,t

Fig 1: Example For Hierarchical Clustering

EXISTING SYSTEM
Keyword and Symptom search

Cannot express the absence of certain symptoms

Undesirable search results

Results based on users medical knowledge

Time Consuming

Google Health, Healthline , Med Search

PROPOSED SYSTEM
Questionnaire facility Make multiple queries from users answer to

previous questions
Perform search using queries Provide diversified search results

USER INTERFACE
Query Interface Overview

Fig 2 : The first screen of the query interface

 Symptoms and Signs

Fig 3: The first level of the questionnaire

Cough

sputum purulent with fever no fever non-purulent .

Little or no sputum dyspnea emphysema, chronic pulmonary fibrosis, early pulmonary embolism, early congestive heart failure, mediastinal tumors no dyspnea Viral upper respiratory infection, lung tumor, reflux esophagitis with aspiration, smoking, toxic fumes, hay fever, early primary atypical pneumonia, silicosis

pneumonia, abscess, tuberculosis

chronic bronchitis, bronchiectasis, foreign body, ca of lung, tuberculosis

Fig 4 : The diagnostic decision tree for the symptom cough

 Question Pages

Fig 5: The first question page that is generated for the symptom cough

 Question

Pages()

Fig 6 : The question page generated for medical professionals

SEARCH TECHNIQUES
After obtaining searchers answers.. Step 1 : Forming Queries
{S1} : medical phrases with weight = 1 {S2} : medical phrases with weight < 1

Step 2 : Produce search result pages

Step 3 : Generate snippets Step 4 : Suggest related medical phrases
Phrases with larger term frequency ( tf )

ADVANTAGES
Questionnaire based query interface to guide

users Avoid undesirable results User Friendly Provide diversified search results Requires no special training

DISADVANTAGES
Maintenance is very difficult
Update database frequently

FUTURE ENHANCEMENTS
Can be made more realistic by considering

the age, sex , occupation of user

Can be made more efficient by adding

digital images, health tips etc..

This intelligent search engine will be

available in near future

CONCLUSION
iMed consider the unique requirements of

medical search
Features are very attractive to users with little

medical knowledge
Increased the quality of search result

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G.Luo.Tang, and H.Yang et al. Med Search: A Specialized Search Engine for Medical Information. 1175-1176 Ricardo-Yates Modern Information retrieval R.D Collins Algorithmic Diagnosis Of Symptoms And Signs A cost Effective Approach http://cbsnews.com/stories/2006/06/17/evening news/main1726479.shtml,2006 http://www.google.com/top/health

QUESTIONS