Overview of the second workshop on Medical Content-Based Retrieval for Clinical Decision Support

Abstract

The second workshop on Medical Content-Based Retrieval for Clinical Decision Support took place at the MICCAI conference in Toronto, Canada on September 22, 2011. The workshop brought together more than 40 registered researchers interested in the field of medical content-based retrieval. Eleven papers were accepted and presented at the workshop. Two invited speakers gave overviews on state-of-the-art academic research and industrial perspectives. The program was completed with a panel discussion on the role of content-based retrieval in clinical decision support. This overview introduces the main highlights and discussions in the workshop, summarizes the novelties and introduces the presented papers, which are provided in these proceedings. © 2012 Springer-Verlag.