Rare disease diagnosis as an information retrieval task

Radu Dragusin; Paula Petcu; Christina Lioma; Birger Larsen; Henrik Jørgensen; Ole Winther

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Rare disease diagnosis as an information retrieval task

Radu Dragusin, Paula Petcu, Christina Lioma, Birger Larsen, Henrik Jørgensen, Ole Winther

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Abstract

Increasingly more clinicians use web Information Retrieval (IR) systems to assist them in diagnosing difficult medical cases, for instance rare diseases that they may not be familiar with. However, web IR systems are not necessarily optimised for this task. For instance, clinicians’ queries tend to be long lists of symptoms, often containing phrases, whereas web IR systems typically expect very short keyword-based queries. Motivated by such differences, this work uses a preliminary study of 30 clinical cases to reflect on rare disease retrieval as an IR task. Initial experiments using both Google web search and offline retrieval from a rare disease collection indicate that the retrieval of rare diseases is an open problem with room for improvement.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Advances in Information Retrieval Theory : Third International Conference, ICTIR 2011, Bertinoro, Italy, September 12-14, 2011. Proceedings
Editors	Giambattista Amati, Fabio Crestani
Number of pages	4
Publisher	Springer
Publication date	2011
Pages	356-359
ISBN (Print)	978-3-642-23317-3
ISBN (Electronic)	978-3-642-23318-0
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-23318-0_38
Publication status	Published - 2011
Event	3rd International Conference on Advances in Information Retrieval Theory - Bertinoro, Italy Duration: 12 Sept 2011 → 14 Sept 2011 Conference number: 3

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Conference	3rd International Conference on Advances in Information Retrieval Theory
Number	3
Country/Territory	Italy
City	Bertinoro
Period	12/09/2011 → 14/09/2011

Series	Lecture notes in computer science
Volume	6931
ISSN	0302-9743

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Dragusin, R., Petcu, P., Lioma, C., Larsen, B., Jørgensen, H., & Winther, O. (2011). Rare disease diagnosis as an information retrieval task. In G. Amati, & F. Crestani (Eds.), Advances in Information Retrieval Theory: Third International Conference, ICTIR 2011, Bertinoro, Italy, September 12-14, 2011. Proceedings (pp. 356-359). Springer. Lecture notes in computer science Vol. 6931 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-23318-0_38

Rare disease diagnosis as an information retrieval task. / Dragusin, Radu; Petcu, Paula; Lioma, Christina et al.

Advances in Information Retrieval Theory: Third International Conference, ICTIR 2011, Bertinoro, Italy, September 12-14, 2011. Proceedings. ed. / Giambattista Amati; Fabio Crestani. Springer, 2011. p. 356-359 (Lecture notes in computer science, Vol. 6931).

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Dragusin, R, Petcu, P, Lioma, C, Larsen, B, Jørgensen, H & Winther, O 2011, Rare disease diagnosis as an information retrieval task. in G Amati & F Crestani (eds), Advances in Information Retrieval Theory: Third International Conference, ICTIR 2011, Bertinoro, Italy, September 12-14, 2011. Proceedings. Springer, Lecture notes in computer science, vol. 6931, pp. 356-359, 3rd International Conference on Advances in Information Retrieval Theory, Bertinoro, Italy, 12/09/2011. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-23318-0_38

Dragusin R, Petcu P, Lioma C, Larsen B, Jørgensen H, Winther O. Rare disease diagnosis as an information retrieval task. In Amati G, Crestani F, editors, Advances in Information Retrieval Theory: Third International Conference, ICTIR 2011, Bertinoro, Italy, September 12-14, 2011. Proceedings. Springer. 2011. p. 356-359. (Lecture notes in computer science, Vol. 6931). doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-23318-0_38

Dragusin, Radu ; Petcu, Paula ; Lioma, Christina et al. / Rare disease diagnosis as an information retrieval task. Advances in Information Retrieval Theory: Third International Conference, ICTIR 2011, Bertinoro, Italy, September 12-14, 2011. Proceedings. editor / Giambattista Amati ; Fabio Crestani. Springer, 2011. pp. 356-359 (Lecture notes in computer science, Vol. 6931).

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