A knowledge-based approach for retrieving images by content

IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 522-532

  Hsu, Chih Cheng ^a   Chu, Wesley W ^a   Taira, Ricky K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cooperative query processing; Knowledge based query processing; Knowledge based spatial image model; Medical Image database; Retrieve image by feature and content; Shape model; Spatial query processing; Spatial relationship model

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CONTEXT SENSITIVE LANGUAGES; DATA STRUCTURES; DATABASE SYSTEMS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION; QUERY LANGUAGES;

IMAGE RETRIEVAL; QUERY PROCESSING; QUERY RELAXATION TECHNIQUE; SPATIAL RELATIONSHIP MODEL; TYPE ABSTRACTION HIERARCHIES;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

EID: 0030214879     PISSN: 10414347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/69.536245     Document Type: Article

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