Author/Authors :
Kreuzthaler, Markus Statistics and Documentation Medical University of Graz - Institute for Medical Informatics, Austria , Bloice, Marcus D. Statistics and Documentation Medical University of Graz - Institute for Medical Informatics, Austria , Faulstich, Lukas ID Information und Dokumentation im Gesundheitswesen GmbH, Germany , Faulstich, Lukas Co.KGaA (ID), Germany , Simonic, Klaus-Martin Statistics and Documentation Medical University of Graz - Institute for Medical Informatics, Austria , Holzinger, Andreas Statistics and Documentation Medical University of Graz - Institute for Medical Informatics, Austria
Abstract :
Patient information in health care systems mostly consists of textual data, and free text in particular makes up a significant amount of it. Information retrieval systems that concentrate on these text types have to deal with the different challenges these medical free texts pose to achieve an acceptable performance. This paper describes the evaluation of four different types of information retrieval strategies: keyword search, search performed by a medical domain expert, a semantic based information retrieval tool, and a purely statistical information retrieval method. The different methodsare evaluated and compared with respect to its appliance in medical health care systems.
Keywords :
information retrieval , health care , medicine , evaluation , text mining
