What is CRFinder?

     CRFinder is a comprehensive multimodal information system with powerful interfaces for searching, visualizing and analyzing case reports. The current version of CRFinder database contained 55212 different patient cases extracted from 52949 Case Reports in English published from 2000 to 2021. Extracted medical figures are including 30200 CT figures, 12136 MRI figures, 4357 ultrasound figures, 17712 microscopy figures and 2595 endoscopy figures.


How to download figures from CRFinder?

      Because copyright reserved by the authors or the published journals, we cannot grant permissions to download images from CRFinder. If users are interested in the Case Report, a link to original full text webpage in PMC will be redirected by clicking full text link.


Instruction for two retrieval functions

Medical ontology-based browse function:

      There are four kinds of filters: disease, symptom, body system and imaging types on the ‘Browse’ page. Users can look through figures by selecting entities in the left sidebar and the results would be displayed in form of figure list.

Keyword-based search function:

      On the ‘Search’ page, users could input a query with keywords or specific case report PMID, which also supports logic query such ‘And’ and ‘Or’.

Data Source
  • Medical Ontology
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