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Use MyMorph document conversion tool to make PDF files http://docmorph.nlm.nih.gov/docmorph/

Announcing Medical Article Records GROUNDTRUTH (MARG): http://marg.nlm.nih.gov/index2.asp

Announcing PubMed on Tap: http://archive.nlm.nih.gov/proj/pmot/pmot.php

AnatQuest: http://anatquest.nlm.nih.gov/

Projects in the CEB focus on research and development in image engineering: the capture, storage, processing, online retrieval, transmission, and display of both biomedical documents (mainly journals) and medical imagery. Areas of active investigation center on image compression, image enhancement, image understanding, pseudo-grayscale rendition, image transmission and networks, omnifont text recognition, and man-machine interface design. This applied research and development is directed toward the National Library of Medicine's (NLM) mission-critical tasks such as document delivery, archiving, and preservation. In addition, research into imaging techniques that support medical education packages employing digitized radiographic, dermatological, and other imagery is also being pursued.

World Clock

Image of the world clock at LHC After more than 20 years of service, the World Clock has received a well-deserved upgrade. The CEB unveils the updated clock in the LHC dining area.
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DocMorph/MyMorph

Screen capture of the revised DocMorph Web site CEB announces the release of the newly designed DocMorph Web site. The DocMorph and MyMorph document conversion tools enable users to convert more than 50 file types into PDF or synthesized speech: http://docmorph.nlm.nih.gov/docmorph/

MARS Team

The CEB is responsible for automating the production of bibliographic records for MEDLINE, NLM's premier database used by clinicians and researchers worldwide. Our Medical Article Record System (MARS) involves scanning, optical character recognition (OCR), and automatic identification and extraction of fields. The MARS team enables the processing of 600+ articles daily: http://archive.nlm.nih.gov/conf/mars/mars.html

CBMS 2004

The 17th IEEE International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems was held in June in Bethesda, MD. CEB's Rodney Long and Sameer Antani co-chaired the event. Milan Sonka, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Iowa, presented the Keynote address: Comprehensive Approach to Pulmonary Image Analysis. Photographs of the event are at http://archive.nlm.nih.gov/conf/cbms2004/index.htm

PubMed on Tap

Screen capture of the revisec PubMed on Tap Web site PubMed on Tap is now available for both Palm OS and PocketPC PDAs. Information and downloads are available at their updated Web site:
http://archive.nlm.nih.gov/proj/pmot/pmot.php

NEW at CEB

Sameer Antani: Content-Based Image Retrieval for Large Biomedical Image Archives (PDF), Sept 2004.

Song Mao: Bayesian Learning of 2D Document Layout Models for Automated Preservation Metadata Extraction (PDF), Sept 2004.

Sameer Antani: Evaluation of shape similarity measurement methods for spine x-ray images (PDF), Sept 2004.

Daniel Le: Automated article links identification for Web-based online medical journals (PDF), July 2004.

Jong Woo Kim: Automated labeling for biomedical journals published in foreign languages (PDF), July 2004.

Mike Bopf: An architecture for streamlining the implementation of biomedical text/image databases on the Web (PDF), June 2004.

Susan Hauser: A Testbed System for Mobile Point-of-Care Information Delivery (PDF), June 2004.

Frank Walker: A Web-Based Paradigm for File Migration (PDF), Apr. 2004.

Dina Demner-Fushman: Organizing Literature Information for Clinical Decision Support (PDF), Sep. 2004.

Susan Hauser: PubMed on Tap: Discovering Design Principles for Online Information Delivery to Handheld Computers (PDF), Sep. 2004.

Sameer Antani: Partial Shape Matching for CBIR of Spine X-ray Images (PDF), Jan. 2004.

Song Mao: Style-Independent Document Labeling: Design and Performance Evaluation (PDF), Jan. 2004.

Song Mao: A Dynamic Feature Generation System for Automated Metadata Extraction in Preservation of Digital Materials (PDF), Jan. 2004.

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