Abstract: A method comprises collecting an online article which includes a figure from selected online sources, recording data identifying the online article, creating a thumbnail image of each figure, storing it and a figure caption associated with the figure in a database, indexing a text of the figure caption by keywords and concepts determined by Metathesaurus®, determining a concept of a search term by Metathesaurus®, identifying a figure caption by comparing the search term with the keywords indexing a text of each figure caption and the concept of the search term with the concepts indexing a text of each figure caption, retrieving a thumbnail image associated with the identified figure caption, displaying the retrieved thumbnail image and the identified figure caption, and providing a link to an online article including the identified figure caption with the retrieved thumbnail image. Search results are filtered based on age, sex and modality.