How do healthcare professionals select the medical images they need?

Aslib Proceedings: New Information Perspectives

Volumn 65, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 54-72

  Sedghi, Shahram ^a   Sanderson, Mark ^b   Clough, Paul ^c  

^a TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Health care; Image retrieval; Image seeking behaviour; Imaging; Medical imaging; Relevance criteria; Relevance judgment; Searching

Indexed keywords

DESIGN/METHODOLOGY/APPROACH; FACE-TO-FACE INTERVIEW; HEALTH CARE PROFESSIONALS; IMAGE SEEKING BEHAVIOUR; INFORMATION NEED; MEDICAL IMAGES; MEDICAL SETTINGS; RELEVANCE CRITERIA; RELEVANCE JUDGMENT; RETRIEVED IMAGES; SEARCHING;

HEALTH CARE; IMAGE RETRIEVAL; IMAGING TECHNIQUES;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 84872329044     PISSN: 0001253X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00012531311297186     Document Type: Article

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