NIH R01 · 2025
Advancing Medical Illustration in Patient Education Materials: from Art to Science
PROJECT SUMMARY/ABSTRACT Advancing Medical Illustration in Patient Education Materials: from Art to Science Despite the enormous effort and expense spent in the creation of medical illustrations, there has been no systematic empirical evaluation to date of the impact of varying illustration elements and styles on patient comprehension of the concepts that were intended to be conveyed in the illustration or patient anxiety induced by the illustration. In this effort we will first develop a domain ontology that systematically describes the space of medical illustration styles in current use. We will then use this ontology to guide the creation of a public domain corpus of patient education…
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