A new way for multidimensional medical data management: Volume of interest (VOI)-based retrieval of medical images with visual and functional features

IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 598-607

  Kim, Jinman ^a   Cai, Weidong ^a   Feng, Dagan ^a,b   Wu, Hao ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Functional imaging; Image segmentation; Multi dimensional features; Region based image retrieval

Indexed keywords

FEATURE EXTRACTION; IMAGE RETRIEVAL; IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

FUNCTIONAL IMAGING; MEDICAL IMAGES; MULTI-DIMENSIONAL FEATURES; REGION-BASED IMAGE RETRIEVAL;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER INTERFACE; DATA BASE; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; EVALUATION; FUZZY LOGIC; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MEDICAL RECORD; METHODOLOGY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY; ROC CURVE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; DATABASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS, CLINICAL; FUZZY LOGIC; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; MEDICAL RECORDS SYSTEMS, COMPUTERIZED; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; ROC CURVE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 33746927523     PISSN: 10897771     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TITB.2006.872045     Document Type: Article

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