Memantic: A Medical Knowledge Discovery Engine

TL;DR

Memantic is a system that builds and updates a network of medical concepts from biomedical literature, allowing users to visually explore relationships and gain quick, contextual understanding of medical topics, improving over traditional search engines.

Contribution

It introduces a real-time, visual co-occurrence network of medical concepts derived from literature, enhancing medical knowledge discovery and user experience.

Findings

Provides an up-to-date medical concept network

Enables visual exploration of medical relationships

Improves user understanding of biomedical topics

Abstract

We present a system that constructs and maintains an up-to-date co-occurrence network of medical concepts based on continuously mining the latest biomedical literature. Users can explore this network visually via a concise online interface to quickly discover important and novel relationships between medical entities. This enables users to rapidly gain contextual understanding of their medical topics of interest, and we believe this constitutes a significant user experience improvement over contemporary search engines operating in the biomedical literature domain.