  This chapter gives an overview of recent advances in the field of biomedical
text summarization. Different types of challenges are introduced, and methods
are discussed concerning the type of challenge that they address. Biomedical
literature summarization is explored as a leading trend in the field, and some
future lines of work are pointed out. Underlying methods of recent
summarization systems are briefly explained and the most significant evaluation
results are mentioned. The primary purpose of this chapter is to review the
most significant research efforts made in the current decade toward new methods
of biomedical text summarization. As the main parts of this chapter, current
trends are discussed and new challenges are introduced.
