A content-based search engine on medical images for telemedicine

Author

Cheung, David ; Lee, Chi-Hung ; Ng, Vincent

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Hong Kong Univ., Hong Kong

fYear

1997

fDate

11-15 Aug 1997

Firstpage

569

Lastpage

572

Abstract

Retrieving images by content and forming visual queries are important functionality of an image database system. Using textual descriptions to specify queries on image content is another important component of content-based search. The authors describe a medical image database system MIQS which supports visual queries such as query by example and query by sketch. In addition, it supports textual queries on spatial relationships between the objects of an image. MIQS is designed as a client-server application in which the client accesses the database and its images via the WWW

Keywords

Internet; client-server systems; medical image processing; medical information systems; query processing; visual databases; MIQS; WWW; client-server application; content-based search engine; image content; image database system; image retrieval; medical images; query by example; query by sketch; query specification; spatial object/image relationships; telemedicine; textual descriptions; textual queries; visual query formation; Biomedical imaging; Content based retrieval; Image databases; Image retrieval; Information retrieval; Search engines; Spatial databases; Telemedicine; Visual databases; World Wide Web;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer Software and Applications Conference, 1997. COMPSAC '97. Proceedings., The Twenty-First Annual International

Conference_Location

Washington, DC

ISSN

0730-3157

Print_ISBN

0-8186-8105-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CMPSAC.1997.625070

Filename

625070