What's New: Lister Hill National Center for Biomedical
Communications Annual Report for FY 2003
January, 2004 |
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Seeking to improve access to high quality biomedical information
for individuals around the world, the Lister Hill Center conducts
and supports research and development in the dissemination of high
quality imagery, medical language processing, high-speed access to
biomedical information, intelligent database systems development,
multimedia visualization, knowledge management, data mining and
machine-assisted indexing.
Building on FY 2002 accomplishments, the Lister Hill National
Center for Biomedical Communications made significant progress
in biomedical informatics research and development during FY
2003. Some of the Lister Hill Center's significant
accomplishments include:
Language and Knowledge Processing
- The SPECIALIST Lexicon increased by over 12% to
183,000 lexical items.
- The Metathesaurus was updated to include more
than 900,000 concepts with 2.5 million names
from 102 source vocabularies in 15 languages.
Image Processing
- Version 1.0 of the Insight Toolkit (ITK), a research
and development initiative under the Visible Human
Project, was officially released.
- Worldwide utilization of Visible Human Project data sets
reached over 1800 licensees in 47 countries.
- A second Content-Based Image Retrieval prototype
(CBIR2) was implemented.
- Three prototype DVDs representing the Once and Future
Web Exhibition were developed.
Information Systems
- The Genetics Home Reference website was launched.
- The collections of Donald S. Fredrickson, Fred L. Soper
and Florence R. Sabin were added to
Profiles In Science.
- ClinicalTrials.gov increased the number of protocol
records by over 25% from 6,600 protocol records in 2002
to 8,300 records in 2003.
- The Medical Article Records Groundtruth (MARG) database
was released.
- The number of DocMorph registered users increased 40%
(8,000 registered users).
Infrastructure Research
- NLM's Internet 2 connection to the MAX GigaPOP
(Mid Atlantic Exchange Gigabit Point of Presence)
was increased from 155 megabits per second (OC-12)
to gigabit speed (gig-E).
- Seeking to encourage the development of health related
applications of scalable, network aware, wireless,
geographic information systems, and identification
technologies in a networked environment, 11
Scalable
Information Infrastructure research contract awards were
made.
Training
- Training was provided to 48 participants from 18 states
and 6 countries.
FY
2003 Annual Report
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