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Goldminer: Radiology Image Search Engine

Goldminer is a search engine that indexes and provides instant access to Radiology images published in select radiology journals. The ARRS Goldminer understands medical vocabulary. It recognizes medical abbreviations, synonyms and kinds of diseases. It uses techniques from the U.S. National Library of Medicine to discover medical concepts in free-text figure captions and utilizes that information to quickly retrieve relevant images.

This is a great research tool for doctors and medical students. A filtering tool can also be utilized by the user to filter out the results by imaging modality (e.g., “MRI”), age, and/or sex. The indexed images come in high resolution and provide technical information about the data found in the radiology images (see below). Instead of bookmarking and remembering different medical journals published on different websites, doctors and students can easily make a search from GoldMiner and get a list of results of the materials they are looking for. What is even better is that the indexed results are pre selected by professionals and experts in the field.

Sample Image: Click for High Quality

Fig 1. A, Regions of interest were placed in the spectroscopic matrix on T2-weighted images (2720/126; 256 x 256 matrix; field of view, 230 x 230 mm; section thickness, 6 mm) in the tumor center (TC), the border of the tumor (TB), the normal-appearing white matter adjacent to the tumor (TNWM), and in the white matter of the contralateral hemisphere (NWMC).

A Beta version of the service called GoldMiner Global is also available which makes GoldMiner available in eleven (11) different languages.

Tags: Medical, radiology images, search-engine

iMedix: Your Social Health Networking Site

If you think that WebMD is useful when it comes to providing health related information online, then you better check out iMedix. It is a free service that helps you find and share comprehensive health information from the top sources across the web. iMedix supports you in coping with fear and confusion regarding your medical condition. It’s like a social health networking site which helps you search for symptoms, diseases, treatments, or simply general health information.

 Get help from the iMedix community and assist each other by sharing their experiences and ranking medical content in order to make health information personal, organized and accessible to any individual. You can communicate with people who would like to discuss and share similar health experiences with you.

Just in case you haven’t heard of iMedix before, it is recently nominated and won the Best New Start-Up of 200 at the Crunchies worldwide competition. The usefulness of iMedix for people looking for health related information truly makes it worthy of the award.

Tags: Health, imedix, information, Medical

Diagnose Yourself Website

WebMd is one of the most useful health website that I have ever stumbled into. It provides an interactive checkup, symptom checker and loads of medical information that could prove useful to you before going to your doctor. Although consulting a real doctor before taking any medication is still the best call, it wouldn’t hurt to gather rather “accurate” information about your symptoms before a visit. You can check out the site on the link below.

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Tags: Diagnose, Free, Medical, Symptoms