Medical image annotation and retrieval using visual features

Jing Liu, Yang Hu, Mingjing Li, Songde Ma, Wei-Ying Ma

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Abstract

In this paper, we present the algorithms and results of our participation in the medical image annotation and retrieval tasks of ImageCLEFmed 2006. We exploit using global features and local features to describe medical images in the annotation task. Different kinds of global features are examined and the most descriptive ones are extracted to represent the radiographs, which effectively capture the intensity, texture and shape characters of the image content. We also evaluate the descriptive power of local features, i.e. local image patches, for medical images. A newly developed spatial pyramid matching algorithm is applied to measure the similarity between images represented by sets of local features. Both descriptors use multi-class SVM to classify the images. We achieve an error rate of 17.6% for global descriptor and 18.2% for the local one, which rank sixth and ninth respectively among all the submissions. For the medical image retrieval task, we only use visual features to describe the images. No textual information is considered. Different features are used to describe gray images and color images. Our submission achieves a mean average precision (MAP) of 0.0681, which ranks second in the 11 runs that also only use visual features. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2007.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationEvaluation of Multilingual and Multi-modal Information Retrieval - 7th Workshop of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum, CLEF 2006, Revised Selected Papers
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages678-685
Volume4730 LNCS
ISBN (Print)9783540749981
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2007
Externally publishedYes
Event7th Workshop of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum, CLEF 2006 - Alicante, Spain
Duration: 20 Sept 200622 Sept 2006

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume4730 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference7th Workshop of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum, CLEF 2006
Country/TerritorySpain
CityAlicante
Period20/09/0622/09/06

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