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MOTIVATION: Figures from biomedical articles contain valuable information difficult to reach without specialized tools. Currently, there is no search engine that can retrieve specific figure types. RESULTS: This study describes a retrieval method that takes advantage of principles in image understanding, text mining and optical character recognition (OCR) to retrieve figure types defined conceptually. A search engine was developed to retrieve tables and figure types to aid computational and experimental research. AVAILABILITY: http://iossifovlab.cshl.edu/figurome/.
Rodriguez‐Esteban et al. (2009) studied this question.