Searching Medical Image Databases by Image Content

Wei Zhang(1), Sven Dickinson(1), Stan Sclaroff(2), Ivan Marsic(1), Stacy Hawkins(1), Jacob Feldman(1), Stanley Dunn(1)
(1)Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ
(2)Boston University, Boston, MA

In this work develop a clinical radiograph image database to be indexed by image content. User-identified regions, such as a lesion in a dental radiograph, are matched automatically to similar images regions in a large clinical database. Regions are described by modal shape descriptors, while other image features, including radiodensity, texture, and size are described using commonly available techniques. A preliminary report is avaliable.
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