Abstract:Exploring the development trends and hotspots of research in disciplines or fields is always an important topic for the domestic and foreign scholars, and analyzing the frequency changes of high-frequency keywords is an important research content. There is a strong correlation between changes in keywords and time, but currently only a few studies have considered the characteristic of keywords changing closely over time. Considering the time attribute of keywords, an Adaboost-based RBF neural network forecasting algorithm (hereinafter referred to as "Improved RBF algorithm") was proposed and applied to the keyword frequency forecasting and analyzing. The keywords of medical image journal papers from 2007 to 2022 collected from CNKI were processed. Taking the data from 2007 to 2021 as the training data and the data from 2022 as the validation data, the prediction results of keyword frequency by Improved RBF algorithm, back propagation (BP) neural network algorithm and auto-regressive moving-average (ARMA) time series analysis algorithm were compared through the analysis of examples. The results showed that improving the RBF algorithm through AdaBoost algorithm can not only enhance the generalization ability and adaptability of the RBF neural network to samples, but also retain good nonlinear mapping ability of the RBF neural network, and the prediction results of the Improved RBF algorithm were close to the actual data, and the prediction accuracy was better than BP neural network algorithm and ARMA time series algorithm. Thus the prediction performance of the proposed algorithm is better.