Content-based medical image retrieval: A survey of applications to multidimensional and multimodality data

Journal of Digital Imaging

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1025-1039

  Kumar, Ashnil ^a   Kim, Jinman ^a   Cai, Weidong ^a   Fulham, Michael ^a,b,c   Feng, Dagan ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b ROYAL PRINCE ALFRED HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^d SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Content based image retrieval; Medical images; Multidimensional data; Multimodality data; Review

Indexed keywords

CONTENT BASED IMAGE RETRIEVAL; IMAGE COLLECTIONS; MULTI-MODALITY; MULTI-MODALITY IMAGES; MULTIDIMENSIONAL DATA; STATE OF THE ART; TEXT-BASED RETRIEVAL; TWO-DIMENSIONAL IMAGES;

CONTENT BASED RETRIEVAL; DIAGNOSIS; PICTURE ARCHIVING AND COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; REVIEWS;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DATA BASE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; HOSPITAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; HUMAN; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MULTIMODAL IMAGING; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STANDARD; STATISTICS; SYSTEM ANALYSIS;

CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DATABASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; MALE; MULTIMODAL IMAGING; RADIOLOGY INFORMATION SYSTEMS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOFTWARE; SYSTEMS INTEGRATION;

EID: 84888203094     PISSN: 08971889     EISSN: 1618727X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10278-013-9619-2     Document Type: Article

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