Global Publisher Transforms Medical Image Archive into State-of-the-Art Diagnostic Tool

Innodata Isogen Subject Matter Experts Play Key Role Reviewing and Summarizing Images

Challenge

A global publishing company had amassed a vast library of almost 50,000 images — X-Rays, CT-scans, MRIs and others — that could be used to identify some 2,500 topics on various diseases or illnesses. The images generally covered a larger area than the specific problem being diagnosed, so many required cropping or other markups to identify the relevant portion of the image.

The information services provider also had extensive text records on file to describe the disease topics in detail. To turn this mountain of data into a reference tool, links would need to be created between images and relevant text and summaries generated on each of the topics.

In addition, cross references to related topics would be required to turn the database into a true diagnostic tool. That meant that the image markups, text and summaries would require hundreds of hours of work by radiologists and physicians, whose fees would outweigh the financial benefit of creating the database...