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Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated impressive capabilities in disease diagnosis. However, their effectiveness in identifying rarer diseases, which are inherently more challenging to diagnose, remains an open question. Rare…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-24 Elliot Schumacher , Dhruv Naik , Anitha Kannan

The increasing digitization of medical imaging enables machine learning based improvements in detecting, visualizing and segmenting lesions, easing the workload for medical experts. However, supervised machine learning requires reliable…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-03 Maximilian E. Tschuchnig , Michael Gadermayr

The ever-growing volume of biomedical publications creates a critical need for efficient knowledge discovery. In this context, we introduce an open-source end-to-end framework designed to construct knowledge around specific diseases…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-05 Christos Theodoropoulos , Andrei Catalin Coman , James Henderson , Marie-Francine Moens

In rare disease physician targeting, a major challenge is how to identify physicians who are treating diagnosed or underdiagnosed rare diseases patients. Rare diseases have extremely low incidence rate. For a specified rare disease, only a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-01-23 Yong Cai , Yunlong Wang , Dong Dai

Chronious is an Open, Ubiquitous and Adaptive Chronic Disease Management Platform for Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease(COPD) Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) and Renal Insufficiency. It consists of several modules: an ontology based…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2012-03-21 Piero Giacomelli , Giulia Munaro , Roberto Rosso

Although rare diseases are characterized by low prevalence, approximately 300 million people are affected by a rare disease. The early and accurate diagnosis of these conditions is a major challenge for general practitioners, who do not…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-11-12 Isabel Segura-Bedmar , David Camino-Perdonas , Sara Guerrero-Aspizua

Crawler-based search engines are the mostly used search engines among web and Internet users, involve web crawling, storing in database, ranking, indexing and displaying to the user. But it is noteworthy that because of increasing changes…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2013-05-14 Ali Tourani , Amir Seyed Danesh

A sudden reliance on the internet has resulted in the global standardization of specific software and interfaces tailored for the average user. Whether it be web apps or dedicated software, the methods of interaction are seemingly similar.…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2020-10-22 Guy Meyer , Alan Wassyng , Mark Lawford , Kourosh Sabri , Shahram Shirani

Improved software discovery is a prerequisite for greater software reuse: after all, if someone cannot find software for a particular task, they cannot reuse it. Understanding people's approaches and preferences when they look for software…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2018-05-30 Michael Hucka , Matthew J. Graham

Search engines are nowadays one of the most important entry points for Internet users and a central tool to solve most of their information needs. Still, there exist a substantial amount of users' searches which obtain unsatisfactory…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2009-11-23 Daniel Gayo-Avello , David J. Brenes

Due to the increasing storage data on Web Applications, it becomes very difficult to use only keyword-based searches to provide comprehensive search results, thus increasing the difficulty for web users to search information on the web. In…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Ikechukwu Onyenwe , Stanley Ogbonna , Ebele Onyedimma , Onyedikachukwu Ikechukwu-Onyenwe , Chidinma Nwafor

Understanding the factors that trigger or prevent undesirable health outcomes across patient subpopulations is essential for designing targeted interventions. While randomized controlled trials and expert-led patient interviews are standard…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Shishir Adhikari , Guido Muscioni , Mark Shapiro , Plamen Petrov , Elena Zheleva

Missed and delayed diagnosis remains a major challenge in rare disease care. At the initial clinical encounters, physicians assess rare disease risk using only limited information under high uncertainty. When high-risk patients are not…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Xi Chen , Hongru Zhou , Huahui Yi , Shiyu Feng , Hanyu Zhou , Tiancheng He , Mingke You , Li Wang , Qiankun Li , Kun Wang , Weili Fu , Kang Li , Jian Li

Software engineers spend a substantial amount of time using Web search to accomplish software engineering tasks. Such search tasks include finding code snippets, API documentation, seeking help with debugging, etc. While debugging a bug or…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-06-02 Foyzul Hassan , Chetan Bansal , Nachiappan Nagappan , Thomas Zimmermann , Ahmed Hassan Awadallah

Maps are an important source of information in archaeology and other sciences. Users want to search for historical maps to determine recorded history of the political geography of regions at different eras, to find out where exactly…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2009-01-27 Qingzhao Tan , Prasenjit Mitra , C. Lee Giles

Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown remarkable capabilities in general domains but often struggle with tasks requiring specialized knowledge. Conventional Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) techniques typically retrieve external…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-20 Yucheng Shi , Tianze Yang , Canyu Chen , Quanzheng Li , Tianming Liu , Xiang Li , Ninghao Liu

In recent years, we have witnessed the proliferation of large amounts of online content generated directly by users with virtually no form of external control, leading to the possible spread of misinformation. The search for effective…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-07-12 Rishabh Upadhyay , Gabriella Pasi , Marco Viviani

The Hidden Web is the vast repository of informational databases available only through search form interfaces, accessible by therein typing a set of keywords in the search forms. Typically, a Hidden Web crawler is employed to autonomously…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2013-11-05 Sonali Gupta , Komal Kumar Bhatia

The crucial role of the evaluation in the development of the information retrieval tools is useful evidence to improve the performance of these tools and the quality of results that they return. However, the classic evaluation approaches…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2011-06-01 Abdelkrim Bouramoul , Mohamed-Khireddine Kholladi , Bich-Lien Doan

As the volume of electronically available information grows, relevant items become harder to find. This work presents an approach to personalizing search results in scientific publication databases. This work focuses on re-ranking search…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2015-09-09 Fredrik Nygård Carlsen