A Content-Based Approach to Medical Image Retrieval

Author(s):  
Anitha K. ◽  
Naresh K. ◽  
Rukmani Devi D.

Medical images stored in distributed and centralized servers are referred to for knowledge, teaching, information, and diagnosis. Content-based image retrieval (CBIR) is used to locate images in vast databases. Images are indexed and retrieved with a set of features. The CBIR model on receipt of query extracts same set of features of query, matches with indexed features index, and retrieves similar images from database. Thus, the system performance mainly depends on the features adopted for indexing. Features selected must require lesser storage, retrieval time, cost of retrieval model, and must support different classifier algorithms. Feature set adopted should support to improve the performance of the system. The chapter briefs on the strength of local binary patterns (LBP) and its variants for indexing medical images. Efficacy of the LBP is verified using medical images from OASIS. The results presented in the chapter are obtained by direct method without the aid of any classification techniques like SVM, neural networks, etc. The results prove good prospects of LBP and its variants.

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 3649-3653

We present a framework that permits in classifying medical images so as to recognize conceivable diseases that affected. This is done by Image retrieval from the collection of dataset by inputting the query image. Content based Image retrieval (CBIR) is the way toward seeking comparable pictures from a picture database dependent on the visual substance of the given query image. Even though some studies present general method in image extraction, there are no efficient methods in medical image retrieval with accuracy. To overcome and to eliminate these flaws our proposed CBIR method examined with the accurate and efficient way for feature extraction from medical images. The images used are grey scale image. The dataset holds the n number of images related to medical particularly brain tumor images. To retrieve the related images from the dataset and get the corresponding details, image is given as an input i.e., query image. Initially, the query image is analyzed by shape, texture and histogram and the result obtained from this is compared with the similar images in dataset. The similarities between the images are found by implementing the Matching Score algorithm. This algorithm provides accuracy in matching the image that helps greatly at the time of classification. The results of computation is said to be the features for the given image. Also the cost for processing the image is comparatively low. The technique has been examined on standard image dataset and satisfactory results have been achieved


Author(s):  
Siddhivinayak Kulkarni

Developments in technology and the Internet have led to an increase in number of digital images and videos. Thousands of images are added to WWW every day. Content based Image Retrieval (CBIR) system typically consists of a query example image, given by the user as an input, from which low-level image features are extracted. These low level image features are used to find images in the database which are most similar to the query image and ranked according their similarity. This chapter evaluates various CBIR techniques based on fuzzy logic and neural networks and proposes a novel fuzzy approach to classify the colour images based on their content, to pose a query in terms of natural language and fuse the queries based on neural networks for fast and efficient retrieval. A number of experiments were conducted for classification, and retrieval of images on sets of images and promising results were obtained.


2019 ◽  
Vol 33 (19) ◽  
pp. 1950213 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vibhav Prakash Singh ◽  
Rajeev Srivastava ◽  
Yadunath Pathak ◽  
Shailendra Tiwari ◽  
Kuldeep Kaur

Content-based image retrieval (CBIR) system generally retrieves images based on the matching of the query image from all the images of the database. This exhaustive matching and searching slow down the image retrieval process. In this paper, a fast and effective CBIR system is proposed which uses supervised learning-based image management and retrieval techniques. It utilizes machine learning approaches as a prior step for speeding up image retrieval in the large database. For the implementation of this, first, we extract statistical moments and the orthogonal-combination of local binary patterns (OC-LBP)-based computationally light weighted color and texture features. Further, using some ground truth annotation of images, we have trained the multi-class support vector machine (SVM) classifier. This classifier works as a manager and categorizes the remaining images into different libraries. However, at the query time, the same features are extracted and fed to the SVM classifier. SVM detects the class of query and searching is narrowed down to the corresponding library. This supervised model with weighted Euclidean Distance (ED) filters out maximum irrelevant images and speeds up the searching time. This work is evaluated and compared with the conventional model of the CBIR system on two benchmark databases, and it is found that the proposed work is significantly encouraging in terms of retrieval accuracy and response time for the same set of used features.


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