A pattern similarity scheme for medical image retrieval

IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 442-450

  Iakovidis, Dimitris K ^a   Pelekis, Nikos ^b   Kotsifakos, Evangelos E ^b   Kopanakis, Ioannis ^c   Karanikas, Haralampos ^d   Theodoridis, Yannis ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PIRAEUS   (Greece)

^c TECHNOLOGICAL EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CRETE   (Greece)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Content Based Image Retrieval (CBIR); Feature extraction; Pattern similarity; Patterns; Semantics

Indexed keywords

COMPONENT PROPERTIES; CONTENT-BASED; CONTENT-BASED IMAGE RETRIEVAL (CBIR); EXPECTATION-MAXIMIZATION ALGORITHMS; FEATURE SPACE; IMAGE CONTENT; ITERATIVE APPROACH; LARGE DATABASE; MEDICAL IMAGE RETRIEVAL; NUMBER OF CLUSTERS; PATTERN REPRESENTATION AND MANAGEMENTS; PATTERN SIMILARITY; PATTERNS; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGES; SEMANTIC INTERPRETATION;

ALGORITHMS; CONTENT BASED RETRIEVAL; DATABASE SYSTEMS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION; SEMANTICS;

FEATURE EXTRACTION;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HAND; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; METHODOLOGY; PELVIS; RADIOGRAPHY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHMS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HAND; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; PELVIS; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC;

EID: 67749122658     PISSN: 10897771     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TITB.2008.923144     Document Type: Conference Paper

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