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Gabor Barcodes for Medical Image Retrieval
In recent years, advances in medical imaging have led to the emergence of
massive databases, containing images from a diverse range of modalities. This
has significantly heightened the need for automated annotation of the images on
one side, and fast and memory-efficient content-based image retrieval systems
on the other side. Binary descriptors have recently gained more attention as a
potential vehicle to achieve these goals. One of the recently introduced binary
descriptors for tagging of medical images are Radon barcodes (RBCs) that are
driven from Radon transform via local thresholding. Gabor transform is also a
powerful transform to extract texture-based information. Gabor features have
exhibited robustness against rotation, scale, and also photometric
disturbances, such as illumination changes and image noise in many
applications. This paper introduces Gabor Barcodes (GBCs), as a novel framework
for the image annotation. To find the most discriminative GBC for a given query
image, the effects of employing Gabor filters with different parameters, i.e.,
different sets of scales and orientations, are investigated, resulting in
different barcode lengths and retrieval performances. The proposed method has
been evaluated on the IRMA dataset with 193 classes comprising of 12,677 x-ray
images for indexing, and 1,733 x-rays images for testing. A total error score
as low as ( accuracy for the first hit) was achieved.Comment: To appear in proceedings of The 2016 IEEE International Conference on
Image Processing (ICIP 2016), Sep 25-28, 2016, Phoenix, Arizona, US
An Integrated Content and Metadata based Retrieval System for Art
In this paper we describe aspects of the Artiste project to develop a distributed content and metadata based analysis, retrieval and navigation system for a number of major European Museums. In particular, after a brief overview of the complete system, we describe the design and evaluation of some of the image analysis algorithms developed to meet the specific requirements of the users from the museums. These include a method for retrievals based on sub images, retrievals based on very low quality images and retrieval using craquelure type
Geodesics on the manifold of multivariate generalized Gaussian distributions with an application to multicomponent texture discrimination
We consider the Rao geodesic distance (GD) based on the Fisher information as a similarity measure on the manifold of zero-mean multivariate generalized Gaussian distributions (MGGD). The MGGD is shown to be an adequate model for the heavy-tailed wavelet statistics in multicomponent images, such as color or multispectral images. We discuss the estimation of MGGD parameters using various methods. We apply the GD between MGGDs to color texture discrimination in several classification experiments, taking into account the correlation structure between the spectral bands in the wavelet domain. We compare the performance, both in terms of texture discrimination capability and computational load, of the GD and the Kullback-Leibler divergence (KLD). Likewise, both uni- and multivariate generalized Gaussian models are evaluated, characterized by a fixed or a variable shape parameter. The modeling of the interband correlation significantly improves classification efficiency, while the GD is shown to consistently outperform the KLD as a similarity measure
Radon-Gabor Barcodes for Medical Image Retrieval
In recent years, with the explosion of digital images on the Web,
content-based retrieval has emerged as a significant research area. Shapes,
textures, edges and segments may play a key role in describing the content of
an image. Radon and Gabor transforms are both powerful techniques that have
been widely studied to extract shape-texture-based information. The combined
Radon-Gabor features may be more robust against scale/rotation variations,
presence of noise, and illumination changes. The objective of this paper is to
harness the potentials of both Gabor and Radon transforms in order to introduce
expressive binary features, called barcodes, for image annotation/tagging
tasks. We propose two different techniques: Gabor-of-Radon-Image Barcodes
(GRIBCs), and Guided-Radon-of-Gabor Barcodes (GRGBCs). For validation, we
employ the IRMA x-ray dataset with 193 classes, containing 12,677 training
images and 1,733 test images. A total error score as low as 322 and 330 were
achieved for GRGBCs and GRIBCs, respectively. This corresponds to retrieval accuracy for the first hit.Comment: To appear in proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on
Pattern Recognition (ICPR 2016), Cancun, Mexico, December 201
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