Mind the gap: challenges and future directions for content-based image retrieval in clinical radiology
Erika Spada, Katharina Erb-Eigner, Aurélie Pahud de Mortanges, Mauricio Reyes, Alexander Pöllinger · 2026
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Description
Erika Spada and co-authors map image search tools for radiology in a 2026 review. Content-based search finds past scans that look like the one at hand. Such finds can back a hard call or teach a new reader. The review sweeps the field's state: what works, what stalls, and what comes next. A fresh form, trajectory search, tracks how an ill moves through scans over time.
Real clinic use lags the lab work, the team find. Mixed data forms, privacy walls, and weak time sense block the path. Fixes pair path search with mixed data feeds and human checks in the loop. That blend fits how doctors think: by case arcs, not lone snaps. The authors see search as a core aid once those bars fall.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Erika Spada, Katharina Erb-Eigner, Aurélie Pahud de Mortanges, Mauricio Reyes, Alexander Pöllinger |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 33 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |