A global description of medical imaging with high precision

IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part B: Cybernetics

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 752-757

  Chbeir, Richard ^a   Favetta, Franck ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE BOURGOGNE   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Ambiguity resolving; Image retrieval; Medical imaging; Spatial relations; Visual language

Indexed keywords

IMAGE RETRIEVAL; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; QUERY LANGUAGES;

AMBIGUITY RESOLVING; SPATIAL RELATIONS; VISUAL LANGUAGE;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 0141905906     PISSN: 10834419     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSMCB.2003.816911     Document Type: Article

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