HPC is a key tool for processing and analyzing the constantly growing volume of data, from 64.2 zettabytes in 2020 to an expected 180 zettabytes in 2025 (1 zettabyte is equal to 1 trillion gigabytes). As such, HPC has a large number of application areas that range from climate change, monitoring and mitigating planning to the production of safer and greener vehicles and treating COVID-19 pandemic to the advancement of knowledge in almost every scientific field and industrial domain.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe number of health-related websites is increasing day-by-day; however, their quality is variable and difficult to assess. Various "trust marks" and filtering portals have been created in order to assist consumers in retrieving quality medical information. Consumers are using search engines as the main tool to get health information; however, the major problem is that the meaning of the web content is not machine-readable in the sense that computers cannot understand words and sentences as humans can.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFStud Health Technol Inform
December 2006
Quality of Internet health information is essential because it has the potential to benefit or harm a large number of people and it is therefore essential to provide consumers with some tools to aid them in assessing the nature of the information they are accessing and how they should use it without jeopardizing their relationship with their doctor. Organizations around the world are working on establishing standards of quality in the accreditation of health-related web content. For the full success of these initiatives, they must be equipped with technologies that enable the automation of the rating process and allow the continuous monitoring of labelled web sites alerting the labelling agency.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAs the number of medical websites in various languages increases, it is increasingly necessary to establish specific criteria and control measures that give consumers some guarantee that the health websites they are visiting meet a minimum level of quality standards. Further, reassurance is needed that the professionals offering the information are suitably qualified. The paper briefly presents the current mechanisms for labelling medical web content and introduces the work done in the EC-funded project Quatro.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFComputational analysis tools and decision support systems have increased their penetration in the support of clinical processes and management of medical data and knowledge. Applications range from adjunct tools for diagnosis and disease investigation to the treatment and monitoring of therapeutic procedures. As all medical fields, the field of oncology is affected.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFOntologies are widely used for formalizing and organizing the knowledge of a particular domain of interest. This facilitates knowledge sharing and re-use by both people and systems. Ontologies are becoming increasingly important in the biomedical domain since they enable knowledge sharing in a formal, homogeneous and unambiguous way.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: The aim of this paper is to survey the recent work in medical documents summarization.
Background: During the last decade, documents summarization got increasing attention by the AI research community. More recently it also attracted the interest of the medical research community as well, due to the enormous growth of information that is available to the physicians and researchers in medicine, through the large and growing number of published journals, conference proceedings, medical sites and portals on the World Wide Web, electronic medical records, etc.