Medical image resources used by health care professionals

Sedghi, Shahram; Sanderson, Mark; Clough, Paul

doi:10.1108/00012531111187225

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“…Medical images are an essential part of workflows in fields such as radiology (Markonis et al, 2012), where health care professionals tend to search for two types of images: general medical images (e.g. images of anatomic organs) and specific medical images, which are used for clinical or comparison purposes (Sedghi, Sanderson, & Clough, 2011). Users need images collected with different modalities (X-rays, CT scans, and MRIs) (Kim & Gilbertson, 2007); medical students need images corresponding to their current courses (Müller et al, 2006).…”

Section: Biomedicinementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Users believe these images exist, but that they simply cannot be found (Markonis et al, 2012). Possible search difficulties stem from a lack of time and available relevant papers, the newness of certain topics, and a lack of domain-specific search tools (Sedghi et al, 2011).…”

Section: Biomedicinementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Evaluation criteria vary depending on users' professional specialties and particular situations (Clough et al, 2008). Users rely on visual attributes when evaluating general medical images but incorporate textual information and credibility criteria for specific images used for background purposes (Sedghi, Sanderson, & Clough, 2011).…”

Section: Biomedicinementioning

confidence: 99%

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A cross‐disciplinary examination of the user behaviors involved in seeking and evaluating data is surprisingly absent from the research data discussion. This review explores the data retrieval literature to identify commonalities in how users search for and evaluate observational research data in selected disciplines. Two analytical frameworks, rooted in information retrieval and science and technology studies, are used to identify key similarities in practices as a first step toward developing a model describing data retrieval.

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“…Sedghi 2 , et al investigated the resources used by health-care professionals while searching for medical images of 29 health-care professionals from various health and biomedical departments working within Sheffield Teaching hospitals NhS Foundation Trust. They confine that health-care professionals seek medical images in a variety of visual information sources, including those found online and from published medical literature.…”

Section: Review Of Related Literaturementioning

confidence: 99%

Use of Web Resources by Medical ScienceStudents of Aligarh Muslim University

Sohail

Alvi

2014

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In recent years, the internet has emerged as the most important and powerful medium for the communication of information. There is a tremendous growth in the number and variety of information resources available on the internet which becomes an important source for scholarly scientific literature and also more number of information resources as well as the results of scientific and medical research is now being available on web. The paper describes the use of web resources (e-journals and e-databases subscribed by UGC-Info-net consortium) by the students of medical sciences at Aligarh Muslim University, India. A well structured questionnaire was administered to 120 students to collect the primary data from respondents. A total number of 92 filled in questionnaires were received showing overall response rate of 76.66 %. The paper also indicates that it is probably counter-productive to evaluate students as one group. Different segments of students have very different and varied use patterns of web resources depending on study topic, study year, psychological dispositions, and other demographic factors.

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“…A growing number of clinicians, educators, researchers, and other professionals use digital images in their work [20]; biomedical images are often referenced for clinical decision support, educational purposes, and research [21], and specialized collections of biomedical images are considered of value for research and training purposes [22]. Health care professionals regularly search for images published in medical journals to find specialized information [23]. Their effective retrieval of images "can be useful in the clinical care of patients, educations, and research" [24] and to complement the text-based search as a decision support technique [25].…”

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Do Physicians Make Their Articles Readable for Their Blind or Low-Vision Patients? An Analysis of Current Image Processing Practices in Biomedical Journals from the Point of View of Accessibility

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Visual content in biomedical academic papers is a growing source of critical information, but it is not always fully readable for people with visual impairments. We aimed to assess current image processing practices, accessibility policies, and submission policies in a sample of 12 highly cited biomedical journals. We manually checked the application of text-based alternative image descriptions for every image in 12 articles (one for each journal). We determined whether the journals claimed to follow an accessibility policy and we reviewed their submission policy and their guidelines related to the visual content. We identified important features concerning the processing of images and the characteristics of the visual and the retrieval options of visual content offered by the publishers. The evaluation shows that the actual practices of textual image description in highly cited biomedical journals do not follow general guidelines on accessibility. The images within the articles analyzed lack alternative descriptions or have uninformative descriptions, even in the case of journals claiming to follow an accessibility policy. Consequently, the visual information of scientific articles is not accessible to people with severe visual disabilities.Instructions on image submission are heterogeneous and a declaration of accessibility guidelines was only found in two thirds of the sample of journals, with one third not explicitly following any accessibility policy, although they are required to by law.

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Medical image resources used by health care professionals

Cited by 17 publications

References 27 publications

Searching Data: A Review of Observational Data Retrieval Practices in Selected Disciplines

Searching Data: A Review of Observational Data Retrieval Practices in Selected Disciplines

Use of Web Resources by Medical ScienceStudents of Aligarh Muslim University

Do Physicians Make Their Articles Readable for Their Blind or Low-Vision Patients? An Analysis of Current Image Processing Practices in Biomedical Journals from the Point of View of Accessibility

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