On the use of a fuzzy object-relational database for flexible retrieval of medical images

IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 786-803

  Medina, Juan Miguel ^a   Jaime Castillo, Sergio ^a   Barranco, Carlos D ^b   Campaña, Jesús R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD PABLO DE OLAVIDE   (Spain)

Author keywords

Content based image retrieval; fuzzy object relational databases; medical image retrieval

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION DOMAINS; CONTENT BASED IMAGE RETRIEVAL; CONTENT-BASED IMAGE RETRIEVAL SYSTEM; CUSTOMIZABLE; FLEXIBLE RETRIEVAL; MEDICAL CONDITIONS; MEDICAL EXPERTS; MEDICAL IMAGE RETRIEVAL; MEDICAL IMAGES; OBJECT RELATIONAL DATABASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS; OBJECT-RELATIONAL DATABASE; VISUAL PATTERN; X-RAY IMAGE;

CONTENT BASED RETRIEVAL; RELATIONAL DATABASE SYSTEMS;

DIAGNOSIS;

EID: 84864652633     PISSN: 10636706     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TFUZZ.2012.2201726     Document Type: Article

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