There is a huge growth in the volume of published biomedical research in recent years.
Many medical search engines are designed and developed to address the over growing …

One of the challenges of current medical information systems which is based on keyword
searching, is that it may retrieve a large amount of irrelevant information during searching …

Although various ontologies and knowledge sources have been developed in recent years
to facilitate biomedical research, it is difficult to assimilate information from multiple …

With the development of the Semantic Web, ontology has become the crucial means for
representing concepts in various domains of interest. Although the current search engines …

In recent years, technological advances in high-throughput techniques and efficient data
gathering methods, coupled with a world-wide effort in computational biology, have resulted …

Objectives The aim of the study was to develop a metadata and ontology-based health
information search engine ensuring semantic interoperability to collect and provide health …

The need for information search is increasingly growing in all areas of knowledge. One of
the biggest problems today is the deficiency in traditional search systems is retrieving …

Electronic patient health records encompass valuable information about patient's medical
problems, diagnoses, and treatments offered including their outcomes. However, a problem …

Motivation Searching for precise terms and terminological definitions in the biomedical data
space is problematic, as researchers find overlapping, closely related and even equivalent …

This thesis focuses on index and retrieval mechanism of an ontology based medical domain
search engine. First, indexing techniques and retrieval methods are reviewed. Then, a …