ARRS GoldMiner®

Radiology Image Library and Search Engine

ARRS GoldMiner^® provides rapid search of a very large, Internet-based library of peer-reviewed radiology images.

ARRS GoldMiner^® provides instant access to images published in selected peer-reviewed radiology journals. This web-based system allows viewers to search for images by findings, anatomy, imaging technique, and patient age and sex.

Unlike most internet search engines, ARRS GoldMiner^® understands medical vocabulary. It uses sophisticated techniques from the U.S. National Library of Medicine (part of NIH) to discover medical concepts in free-text figure captions, and uses that information to quickly retrieve relevant images. GoldMiner® incorporates standardized vocabularies, such as the Medical Subject Heading (MeSH) terms, which are used to index the medical literature in MEDLINE and PubMed.

GoldMiner^® is provided as a free, open-access service by the American Roentgen Ray Society (ARRS) at http://goldminer.arrs.org.

Publications

1. Kahn CE Jr. A digital library of radiology images. AMIA Annual Symposium Proceedings 2006; 972. [Abstract]
2. Kahn CE Jr. Context-sensitive retrieval and integration of images into web documents. European Radiology 2007; 17 suppl 1: 250 (abstract).
3. Kahn CE Jr, Thao C. GoldMiner: a radiology image search engine. AJR 2007; 188:1475-1478. [Full Text] [PDF]
4. Kahn CE Jr. Effective metadata discovery for dynamic filtering of queries to a radiology image search engine. Journal of Digital Imaging 2007 (in press).

Support

This work has been supported in part by the American Roentgen Ray Society.