Content-based image retrieval by matching hierarchical attributed region adjacency graphs

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5370 I, Issue , 2004, Pages 598-606

  Fischer, Benedikt ^a   Thies, Christian ^a   Güld, Mark O ^a   Lehmann, Thomas M ^a  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Artificial intelligence; Computer aided diagnosis; Content based image retrieval (CBIR); Graph matching; Graph thinning; Multiscale image representation; Neural networks; Picture archiving and communication systems (PACS); Shape analysis

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GRAPH THEORY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE RETRIEVAL; MEDICAL APPLICATIONS; NEURAL NETWORKS;

CONTENT-BASED IMAGE RETRIEVAL (CBIR); GRAPH MATCHING; GRAPH THINING; MULTI-SCALE IMAGE REPRESENTATION; PICTURE ARCHIVING AND COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS (PACS); SHAPE ANALYSIS;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE;

EID: 5644285638     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.535294     Document Type: Conference Paper

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