Hierarchical feature clustering for content-based retrieval in medical image databases

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5032 I, Issue , 2003, Pages 598-608

  Thies, Christian ^a   Malik, A ^a   Keysers, D ^a   Kohnen, M ^a   Fischer, B ^a   Lehmann, T M ^a  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Content description; Content based image retrieval; Multiscale approach; Region adjacency graph; Region growing

Indexed keywords

DATABASE SYSTEMS; GRAPH THEORY; IMAGE RETRIEVAL; IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

MULTISCALE APPROACH;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 0041874889     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.481393     Document Type: Conference Paper

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