Content-based medical image retrieval

Biomedical Information Technology

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 83-113

  Cai, Tom Weidong ^a   Kim, Jinman ^a   Feng, David Dagan ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b ROYAL PRINCE ALFRED HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^c HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; CASE BASED REASONING; CLINICAL RESEARCH; CONTENT BASED RETRIEVAL; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; DIAGNOSIS; EXTRACTION; FEATURE EXTRACTION; IMAGE PROCESSING; MEDICAL EDUCATION; QUERY PROCESSING;

CLINICAL DECISION SUPPORT; CONTENT BASED MEDICAL IMAGE RETRIEVAL; CONTENT-BASED IMAGE RETRIEVAL; EDUCATION AND RESEARCHES; PATHOLOGICAL CONDITIONS; QUANTITATIVE MEASUREMENT; SIMILARITY COMPARISONS; STRUCTURAL INFORMATION;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 78651084417     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-012373583-6.50008-6     Document Type: Chapter

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