International Journal of Computer Applications |
Foundation of Computer Science (FCS), NY, USA |
Volume 76 - Number 12 |
Year of Publication: 2013 |
Authors: Sumathi Ganesan, T. S. Subashini |
10.5120/13297-0730 |
Sumathi Ganesan, T. S. Subashini . An Approach toward the Efficient Indexing and Retrieval on Medical X-Ray Images. International Journal of Computer Applications. 76, 12 ( August 2013), 7-10. DOI=10.5120/13297-0730
Today content-based image retrieval (CBIR) has become one of the most active areas of research in computer vision. With rapid advances in digital imaging modalities, the use of CBIR to search for the clinically relevant and visually similar medical images is highly felt nowadays. This paper proposes a system for content based image retrieval of X-ray images. The six classes of X-ray images used for this work are from the IRMA ImageCLEFmed 2008 database. Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT) coefficients were used as features and the X-rays were classified using Support Vector Machine (SVM). The classified images along with the features were stored in the database using hierarchical index structure. Euclidean distance is used as the metric for retrieving the top three images from the database relevant to the given query image