EVL Faculty G.E. Marai Awarded NIH COVID-19 Supplement

EVL faculty and Computer Science associate professor G. Elisabeta Marai (MPI) along with H. Shatkay (MPI) at the University of Delaware have been awarded supplemental funding for COVID-19 related research to their NIH research project entitled “Uncovering Clinical Evidence in COVID-19 Publications: An Integrated Search via Text & Images”. This supplement expands the work done under current R01 funding “Incorporating Image-based Features into Biomedical Document Classification”, to support discovery within the CORD-19 collection – a large, continually updated collection of more than 60,000 scientific articles pertaining to COVID-19. This supplement will create a comprehensive platform for retrieving and displaying well-focused, need-targeted medical information within COVID-19 biomedical publications. Our approach is unique compared to other text-mining methods because it leverages the image content in the dataset.

Funding: NIH R01 NLM Covid-19 supplement to Parent Grant: 1R01LM012527 (“Incorporating Image-based Features into Biomedical Document Classification”)

Credit: image courtesy Juan Trelles Trabucco