Content-based medical image retrieval(CBMIR)is a technique for retrieving medical images based on automatically derived image features.There are many applications of CBMIR,such as teaching,research,diagnosis and elect...Content-based medical image retrieval(CBMIR)is a technique for retrieving medical images based on automatically derived image features.There are many applications of CBMIR,such as teaching,research,diagnosis and electronic patient records.Several methods are applied to enhance the retrieval performance of CBMIR systems.Developing new and effective similarity measure and features fusion methods are two of the most powerful and effective strategies for improving these systems.This study proposes the relative difference-based similarity measure(RDBSM)for CBMIR.The new measure was first used in the similarity calculation stage for the CBMIR using an unweighted fusion method of traditional color and texture features.Furthermore,the study also proposes a weighted fusion method for medical image features extracted using pre-trained convolutional neural networks(CNNs)models.Our proposed RDBSM has outperformed the standard well-known similarity and distance measures using two popular medical image datasets,Kvasir and PH2,in terms of recall and precision retrieval measures.The effectiveness and quality of our proposed similarity measure are also proved using a significant test and statistical confidence bound.展开更多
Background A medical content-based image retrieval(CBIR)system is designed to retrieve images from large imaging repositories that are visually similar to a user′s query image.CBIR is widely used in evidence-based di...Background A medical content-based image retrieval(CBIR)system is designed to retrieve images from large imaging repositories that are visually similar to a user′s query image.CBIR is widely used in evidence-based diagnosis,teaching,and research.Although the retrieval accuracy has largely improved,there has been limited development toward visualizing important image features that indicate the similarity of retrieved images.Despite the prevalence of 3D volumetric data in medical imaging such as computed tomography(CT),current CBIR systems still rely on 2D cross-sectional views for the visualization of retrieved images.Such 2D visualization requires users to browse through the image stacks to confirm the similarity of the retrieved images and often involves mental reconstruction of 3D information,including the size,shape,and spatial relations of multiple structures.This process is time-consuming and reliant on users'experience.Methods In this study,we proposed an importance-aware 3D volume visualization method.The rendering parameters were automatically optimized to maximize the visibility of important structures that were detected and prioritized in the retrieval process.We then integrated the proposed visualization into a CBIR system,thereby complementing the 2D cross-sectional views for relevance feedback and further analyses.Results Our preliminary results demonstrate that 3D visualization can provide additional information using multimodal positron emission tomography and computed tomography(PETCT)images of a non-small cell lung cancer dataset.展开更多
In medical research and clinical diagnosis, automated or computer-assisted classification and retrieval methods are highly desirable to offset the high cost of manual classification and manipulation by medical experts...In medical research and clinical diagnosis, automated or computer-assisted classification and retrieval methods are highly desirable to offset the high cost of manual classification and manipulation by medical experts. To facilitate the decision-making in the health-care and the related areas, in this paper, a two-step content-based medical image retrieval algorithm is proposed. Firstly, in the preprocessing step, the image segmentation is performed to distinguish image objects, and on the basis of the ...展开更多
The implementation of content-based image retrieval(CBIR)mainly depends on two key technologies:image feature extraction and image feature matching.In this paper,we extract the color features based on Global Color His...The implementation of content-based image retrieval(CBIR)mainly depends on two key technologies:image feature extraction and image feature matching.In this paper,we extract the color features based on Global Color Histogram(GCH)and texture features based on Gray Level Co-occurrence Matrix(GLCM).In order to obtain the effective and representative features of the image,we adopt the fuzzy mathematical algorithm in the process of color feature extraction and texture feature extraction respectively.And we combine the fuzzy color feature vector with the fuzzy texture feature vector to form the comprehensive fuzzy feature vector of the image according to a certain way.Image feature matching mainly depends on the similarity between two image feature vectors.In this paper,we propose a novel similarity measure method based on k-Nearest Neighbors(kNN)and fuzzy mathematical algorithm(SBkNNF).Finding out the k nearest neighborhood images of the query image from the image data set according to an appropriate similarity measure method.Using the k similarity values between the query image and its k neighborhood images to constitute the new k-dimensional fuzzy feature vector corresponding to the query image.And using the k similarity values between the retrieved image and the k neighborhood images of the query image to constitute the new k-dimensional fuzzy feature vector corresponding to the retrieved image.Calculating the similarity between the two kdimensional fuzzy feature vector according to a certain fuzzy similarity algorithm to measure the similarity between the query image and the retrieved image.Extensive experiments are carried out on three data sets:WANG data set,Corel-5k data set and Corel-10k data set.The experimental results show that the outperforming retrieval performance of our proposed CBIR system with the other CBIR systems.展开更多
AIM:To present a content-based image retrieval(CBIR) system that supports the classification of breast tissue density and can be used in the processing chain to adapt parameters for lesion segmentation and classificat...AIM:To present a content-based image retrieval(CBIR) system that supports the classification of breast tissue density and can be used in the processing chain to adapt parameters for lesion segmentation and classification.METHODS:Breast density is characterized by image texture using singular value decomposition(SVD) and histograms.Pattern similarity is computed by a support vector machine(SVM) to separate the four BI-RADS tissue categories.The crucial number of remaining singular values is varied(SVD),and linear,radial,and polynomial kernels are investigated(SVM).The system is supported by a large reference database for training and evaluation.Experiments are based on 5-fold cross validation.RESULTS:Adopted from DDSM,MIAS,LLNL,and RWTH datasets,the reference database is composed of over 10000 various mammograms with unified and reliable ground truth.An average precision of 82.14% is obtained using 25 singular values(SVD),polynomial kernel and the one-against-one(SVM).CONCLUSION:Breast density characterization using SVD allied with SVM for image retrieval enable the development of a CBIR system that can effectively aid radiologists in their diagnosis.展开更多
<div style="text-align:justify;"> Digital image collection as rapidly increased along with the development of computer network. Image retrieval system was developed purposely to provide an efficient to...<div style="text-align:justify;"> Digital image collection as rapidly increased along with the development of computer network. Image retrieval system was developed purposely to provide an efficient tool for a set of images from a collection of images in the database that matches the user’s requirements in similarity evaluations such as image content similarity, edge, and color similarity. Retrieving images based on the content which is color, texture, and shape is called content based image retrieval (CBIR). The content is actually the feature of an image and these features are extracted and used as the basis for a similarity check between images. The algorithms used to calculate the similarity between extracted features. There are two kinds of content based image retrieval which are general image retrieval and application specific image retrieval. For the general image retrieval, the goal of the query is to obtain images with the same object as the query. Such CBIR imitates web search engines for images rather than for text. For application specific, the purpose tries to match a query image to a collection of images of a specific type such as fingerprints image and x-ray. In this paper, the general architecture, various functional components, and techniques of CBIR system are discussed. CBIR techniques discussed in this paper are categorized as CBIR using color, CBIR using texture, and CBIR using shape features. This paper also describe about the comparison study about color features, texture features, shape features, and combined features (hybrid techniques) in terms of several parameters. The parameters are precision, recall and response time. </div>展开更多
Deep convolutional neural networks(DCNNs)are widely used in content-based image retrieval(CBIR)because of the advantages in image feature extraction.However,the training of deep neural networks requires a large number...Deep convolutional neural networks(DCNNs)are widely used in content-based image retrieval(CBIR)because of the advantages in image feature extraction.However,the training of deep neural networks requires a large number of labeled data,which limits the application.Self-supervised learning is a more general approach in unlabeled scenarios.A method of fine-tuning feature extraction networks based on masked learning is proposed.Masked autoencoders(MAE)are used in the fine-tune vision transformer(ViT)model.In addition,the scheme of extracting image descriptors is discussed.The encoder of the MAE uses the ViT to extract global features and performs self-supervised fine-tuning by reconstructing masked area pixels.The method works well on category-level image retrieval datasets with marked improvements in instance-level datasets.For the instance-level datasets Oxford5k and Paris6k,the retrieval accuracy of the base model is improved by 7%and 17%compared to that of the original model,respectively.展开更多
An android-based lace image retrieval system based on content-based image retrieval (CBIR) technique is presented. This paper applies shape and texture features of lace image in our system and proposes a hierarchical ...An android-based lace image retrieval system based on content-based image retrieval (CBIR) technique is presented. This paper applies shape and texture features of lace image in our system and proposes a hierarchical multifeature scheme to facilitate coarseto-fine matching for efficient lace image retrieval in a large database. Experimental results demonstrate the feasibility and effectiveness of the proposed system meet the requirements of realtime.展开更多
The problem considered in this paper is how to detect the degree of similarity in the content of digital images useful in image retrieval,i.e.,to what extent is the content of a query image similar to content of other...The problem considered in this paper is how to detect the degree of similarity in the content of digital images useful in image retrieval,i.e.,to what extent is the content of a query image similar to content of other images.The solution to this problem results from the detection of subsets that are rough sets contained in covers of digital images determined by perceptual tolerance relations(PTRs).Such relations are defined within the context of perceptual representative spaces that hearken back to work by J.H.Poincare on representative spaces as models of physical continua.Classes determined by a PTR provide content useful in content-based image retrieval(CBIR).In addition,tolerance classes provide a means of determining when subsets of image covers are tolerance rough sets(TRSs).It is the nearness of TRSs present in image tolerance spaces that provide a promising approach to CBIR,especially in cases such as satellite images or aircraft identification where there are subtle differences between pairs of digital images,making it difficult to quantify the similarities between such images.The contribution of this article is the introduction of the nearness of tolerance rough sets as an effective means of measuring digital image similarities and,as a significant consequence,successfully carrying out CBIR.展开更多
<div style="text-align:justify;"> An image retrieval system was developed purposely to provide an efficient tool for a set of images from a collection of images in the large database that matches the u...<div style="text-align:justify;"> An image retrieval system was developed purposely to provide an efficient tool for a set of images from a collection of images in the large database that matches the user’s requirements in similarity evaluations such as image content similarity, edge, and colour similarity. Retrieving images based on the contents which are colour, texture, and shape is called content-based image retrieval (CBIR). This paper discusses and describes about the colour features technique for image retrieval systems. Several colour features technique and algorithms produced by the previous researcher are used to calculate the similarity between extracted features. This paper also describes about the specific technique about the colour basis features and combined features (hybrid techniques) between colour and shape features. </div>展开更多
Cloth image retrieval in E-Commerce is a challenging task. In this paper, we propose an effective approach to solve this problem. Our work chooses three features for retrieval: (1) description (2) category (3) color f...Cloth image retrieval in E-Commerce is a challenging task. In this paper, we propose an effective approach to solve this problem. Our work chooses three features for retrieval: (1) description (2) category (3) color features. It can handle clothes with multiple colors, complex background, and model disturbances. To evaluate the proposed method, we collect a set of women cloth images from Amazon.com. Results reported here demonstrate the robustness and effectiveness of our retrieval method.展开更多
The development of medical images acquisition and storage technology has led to the rapid growth of the relevant data.Retrieval of similar medical images can effectively help doctors to diagnose diseases more accurate...The development of medical images acquisition and storage technology has led to the rapid growth of the relevant data.Retrieval of similar medical images can effectively help doctors to diagnose diseases more accurately.But because of the particularity of medical images,traditional contentbased image retrieval(CBIR)method such as bag-of-words(BOW)cannot be applied to medical images.For example,when retrieving a diseased image,we should not only consider the similar characteristics but also need to consider the type of lesion.And for medical images,images with the same lesion may have different image features,similar images may have different types of lesions.In this paper,a Markov random field(MRF)is structured,and an approximate belief propagation algorithm is used to retrieval images.An adjust-ranking step after initial retrieval is incorporated to further improve the retrieval performance.This paper uses the real brain CT images.The experimental results show that the proposed method can significantly improve the retrieval accuracy and has good efficiency.展开更多
Much attention has been paid to relevant feedback in intelligent computation for social computing, especially in content-based image retrieval which based on WeChat platform for the medical auxiliary. It has a good ef...Much attention has been paid to relevant feedback in intelligent computation for social computing, especially in content-based image retrieval which based on WeChat platform for the medical auxiliary. It has a good effect on reducing the semantic gap between high semantics and low semantics of images. There are many kinds of support vector machines (SVM) based relevance feedback methods in image retrieval, but all of them may encounter some problems, such as a small size of sample, an asymmetric positive sample and negative sample as well as a long feedback cycle. To deal with these problems, an improved asymmetric bagging (IAB) relevance feedback algorithm is proposed. Furthermore, we apply a new fuzzy support machine (FSVM) to cooperate with IAB. To solve the over-fitting and real-time problems, we use modified local binary patterns (MLBP) as image features. Finally, experimental results demonstrate that our method performs other methods in terms of improving retrieval precision as well as retrieval efficiency.展开更多
To solve the problem that the existing ciphertext domain image retrieval system is challenging to balance security,retrieval efficiency,and retrieval accuracy.This research suggests a searchable encryption and deep ha...To solve the problem that the existing ciphertext domain image retrieval system is challenging to balance security,retrieval efficiency,and retrieval accuracy.This research suggests a searchable encryption and deep hashing-based secure image retrieval technique that extracts more expressive image features and constructs a secure,searchable encryption scheme.First,a deep learning framework based on residual network and transfer learn-ing model is designed to extract more representative image deep features.Secondly,the central similarity is used to quantify and construct the deep hash sequence of features.The Paillier homomorphic encryption encrypts the deep hash sequence to build a high-security and low-complexity searchable index.Finally,according to the additive homomorphic property of Paillier homomorphic encryption,a similarity measurement method suitable for com-puting in the retrieval system’s security is ensured by the encrypted domain.The experimental results,which were obtained on Web Image Database from the National University of Singapore(NUS-WIDE),Microsoft Common Objects in Context(MS COCO),and ImageNet data sets,demonstrate the system’s robust security and precise retrieval,the proposed scheme can achieve efficient image retrieval without revealing user privacy.The retrieval accuracy is improved by at least 37%compared to traditional hashing schemes.At the same time,the retrieval time is saved by at least 9.7%compared to the latest deep hashing schemes.展开更多
Medical image application in clinical diagnosis and treatment is becoming more and more widely, How to use a large number of images in the image management system and it is a very important issue how to assist doctors...Medical image application in clinical diagnosis and treatment is becoming more and more widely, How to use a large number of images in the image management system and it is a very important issue how to assist doctors to analyze and diagnose. This paper studies the medical image retrieval based on multi-layer resampling template under the thought of the wavelet decomposition, the image retrieval method consists of two retrieval process which is coarse and fine retrieval. Coarse retrieval process is the medical image retrieval process based on the image contour features. Fine retrieval process is the medical image retrieval process based on multi-layer resampling template, a multi-layer sampling operator is employed to extract image resampling images each layer, then these resampling images are retrieved step by step to finish the process from coarse to fine retrieval.展开更多
The paper presents a fast algorithm for image retrieval using multi-channel textural features in medical picture archiving and communication system (PACS). By choosing different linear or nonlinear operators in predic...The paper presents a fast algorithm for image retrieval using multi-channel textural features in medical picture archiving and communication system (PACS). By choosing different linear or nonlinear operators in prediction and update lifting step, the linear or nonlinear M-band wavelet decomposition can be achieved in M-band lifting. It provides the advantages such as fast transform, in-place calculation and integer-integer transform. The set of wavelet moment forms multi-channel textural feature vector related to the texture distribution of each wavelet images. The experimental results of CT image database show that the retrieval approach of multi-channel textural features is effective for image indexing and has lower computational complexity and less memory. It is much easier to implement in hardware and suitable for the applications of real time medical processing system.展开更多
Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate the effectiveness and advantages of using perceptual tolerance neighbourhoods in tolerance space-based image similarity measures and its application in content-base...Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate the effectiveness and advantages of using perceptual tolerance neighbourhoods in tolerance space-based image similarity measures and its application in content-based image classification and retrieval.Design/methodology/approach–The proposed method in this paper is based on a set-theoretic approach,where an image is viewed as a set of local visual elements.The method also includes a tolerance relation that detects the similarity between pairs of elements,if the difference between corresponding feature vectors is less than a threshold 2(0,1).Findings–It is shown that tolerance space-based methods can be successfully used in a complete content-based image retrieval(CBIR)system.Also,it is shown that perceptual tolerance neighbourhoods can replace tolerance classes in CBIR,resulting in more accuracy and less computations.Originality/value–The main contribution of this paper is the introduction of perceptual tolerance neighbourhoods instead of tolerance classes in a new form of the Henry-Peters tolerance-based nearness measure(tNM)and a new neighbourhood-based tolerance-covering nearness measure(tcNM).Moreover,this paper presents a side–by–side comparison of the tolerance space based methods with other published methods on a test dataset of images.展开更多
With the rapid development of satellite remote sensing technology and an ever-increasing number of Earth observation satellites being launched,the global volume of remotely sensed imagery has been growing exponentiall...With the rapid development of satellite remote sensing technology and an ever-increasing number of Earth observation satellites being launched,the global volume of remotely sensed imagery has been growing exponentially.Processing the variety of remotely sensed data has increasingly been complex and difficult.It is also hard to efficiently and intelligently retrieve what users need from a massive database of images.This paper introduces an improved support vector machine(SVM)model,which optimizes the model parameters and selects the feature subset based on the particle swarm optimization(PSO)method and genetic algorithm(GA)for remote sensing image retrieval.The results from an image retrieval experiment show that our method outperforms traditional methods such as GRID,PSO,and GA in terms of consistency and stability.展开更多
基金funded by the Deanship of Scientific Research (DSR)at King Abdulaziz University,Jeddah,Saudi Arabia,Under Grant No. (G:146-830-1441).
文摘Content-based medical image retrieval(CBMIR)is a technique for retrieving medical images based on automatically derived image features.There are many applications of CBMIR,such as teaching,research,diagnosis and electronic patient records.Several methods are applied to enhance the retrieval performance of CBMIR systems.Developing new and effective similarity measure and features fusion methods are two of the most powerful and effective strategies for improving these systems.This study proposes the relative difference-based similarity measure(RDBSM)for CBMIR.The new measure was first used in the similarity calculation stage for the CBMIR using an unweighted fusion method of traditional color and texture features.Furthermore,the study also proposes a weighted fusion method for medical image features extracted using pre-trained convolutional neural networks(CNNs)models.Our proposed RDBSM has outperformed the standard well-known similarity and distance measures using two popular medical image datasets,Kvasir and PH2,in terms of recall and precision retrieval measures.The effectiveness and quality of our proposed similarity measure are also proved using a significant test and statistical confidence bound.
文摘Background A medical content-based image retrieval(CBIR)system is designed to retrieve images from large imaging repositories that are visually similar to a user′s query image.CBIR is widely used in evidence-based diagnosis,teaching,and research.Although the retrieval accuracy has largely improved,there has been limited development toward visualizing important image features that indicate the similarity of retrieved images.Despite the prevalence of 3D volumetric data in medical imaging such as computed tomography(CT),current CBIR systems still rely on 2D cross-sectional views for the visualization of retrieved images.Such 2D visualization requires users to browse through the image stacks to confirm the similarity of the retrieved images and often involves mental reconstruction of 3D information,including the size,shape,and spatial relations of multiple structures.This process is time-consuming and reliant on users'experience.Methods In this study,we proposed an importance-aware 3D volume visualization method.The rendering parameters were automatically optimized to maximize the visibility of important structures that were detected and prioritized in the retrieval process.We then integrated the proposed visualization into a CBIR system,thereby complementing the 2D cross-sectional views for relevance feedback and further analyses.Results Our preliminary results demonstrate that 3D visualization can provide additional information using multimodal positron emission tomography and computed tomography(PETCT)images of a non-small cell lung cancer dataset.
文摘In medical research and clinical diagnosis, automated or computer-assisted classification and retrieval methods are highly desirable to offset the high cost of manual classification and manipulation by medical experts. To facilitate the decision-making in the health-care and the related areas, in this paper, a two-step content-based medical image retrieval algorithm is proposed. Firstly, in the preprocessing step, the image segmentation is performed to distinguish image objects, and on the basis of the ...
基金This research was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Number:61702310)the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Number:61401260).
文摘The implementation of content-based image retrieval(CBIR)mainly depends on two key technologies:image feature extraction and image feature matching.In this paper,we extract the color features based on Global Color Histogram(GCH)and texture features based on Gray Level Co-occurrence Matrix(GLCM).In order to obtain the effective and representative features of the image,we adopt the fuzzy mathematical algorithm in the process of color feature extraction and texture feature extraction respectively.And we combine the fuzzy color feature vector with the fuzzy texture feature vector to form the comprehensive fuzzy feature vector of the image according to a certain way.Image feature matching mainly depends on the similarity between two image feature vectors.In this paper,we propose a novel similarity measure method based on k-Nearest Neighbors(kNN)and fuzzy mathematical algorithm(SBkNNF).Finding out the k nearest neighborhood images of the query image from the image data set according to an appropriate similarity measure method.Using the k similarity values between the query image and its k neighborhood images to constitute the new k-dimensional fuzzy feature vector corresponding to the query image.And using the k similarity values between the retrieved image and the k neighborhood images of the query image to constitute the new k-dimensional fuzzy feature vector corresponding to the retrieved image.Calculating the similarity between the two kdimensional fuzzy feature vector according to a certain fuzzy similarity algorithm to measure the similarity between the query image and the retrieved image.Extensive experiments are carried out on three data sets:WANG data set,Corel-5k data set and Corel-10k data set.The experimental results show that the outperforming retrieval performance of our proposed CBIR system with the other CBIR systems.
基金Supported by CNPq-Brazil,Grants 306193/2007-8,471518/ 2007-7,307373/2006-1 and 484893/2007-6,by FAPEMIG,Grant PPM 347/08,and by CAPESThe IRMA project is funded by the German Research Foundation(DFG),Le 1108/4 and Le 1108/9
文摘AIM:To present a content-based image retrieval(CBIR) system that supports the classification of breast tissue density and can be used in the processing chain to adapt parameters for lesion segmentation and classification.METHODS:Breast density is characterized by image texture using singular value decomposition(SVD) and histograms.Pattern similarity is computed by a support vector machine(SVM) to separate the four BI-RADS tissue categories.The crucial number of remaining singular values is varied(SVD),and linear,radial,and polynomial kernels are investigated(SVM).The system is supported by a large reference database for training and evaluation.Experiments are based on 5-fold cross validation.RESULTS:Adopted from DDSM,MIAS,LLNL,and RWTH datasets,the reference database is composed of over 10000 various mammograms with unified and reliable ground truth.An average precision of 82.14% is obtained using 25 singular values(SVD),polynomial kernel and the one-against-one(SVM).CONCLUSION:Breast density characterization using SVD allied with SVM for image retrieval enable the development of a CBIR system that can effectively aid radiologists in their diagnosis.
文摘<div style="text-align:justify;"> Digital image collection as rapidly increased along with the development of computer network. Image retrieval system was developed purposely to provide an efficient tool for a set of images from a collection of images in the database that matches the user’s requirements in similarity evaluations such as image content similarity, edge, and color similarity. Retrieving images based on the content which is color, texture, and shape is called content based image retrieval (CBIR). The content is actually the feature of an image and these features are extracted and used as the basis for a similarity check between images. The algorithms used to calculate the similarity between extracted features. There are two kinds of content based image retrieval which are general image retrieval and application specific image retrieval. For the general image retrieval, the goal of the query is to obtain images with the same object as the query. Such CBIR imitates web search engines for images rather than for text. For application specific, the purpose tries to match a query image to a collection of images of a specific type such as fingerprints image and x-ray. In this paper, the general architecture, various functional components, and techniques of CBIR system are discussed. CBIR techniques discussed in this paper are categorized as CBIR using color, CBIR using texture, and CBIR using shape features. This paper also describe about the comparison study about color features, texture features, shape features, and combined features (hybrid techniques) in terms of several parameters. The parameters are precision, recall and response time. </div>
基金the Project of Introducing Urgently Needed Talents in Key Supporting Regions of Shandong Province,China(No.SDJQP20221805)。
文摘Deep convolutional neural networks(DCNNs)are widely used in content-based image retrieval(CBIR)because of the advantages in image feature extraction.However,the training of deep neural networks requires a large number of labeled data,which limits the application.Self-supervised learning is a more general approach in unlabeled scenarios.A method of fine-tuning feature extraction networks based on masked learning is proposed.Masked autoencoders(MAE)are used in the fine-tune vision transformer(ViT)model.In addition,the scheme of extracting image descriptors is discussed.The encoder of the MAE uses the ViT to extract global features and performs self-supervised fine-tuning by reconstructing masked area pixels.The method works well on category-level image retrieval datasets with marked improvements in instance-level datasets.For the instance-level datasets Oxford5k and Paris6k,the retrieval accuracy of the base model is improved by 7%and 17%compared to that of the original model,respectively.
基金the Innovation Fund Projects of Cooperation among Industries,Universities & Research Institutes of Jiangsu Province,China(Nos.BY2015019-11,BY2015019-20)the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities,China(Nos.JUSRP51404A,JUSRP211A38)Project Funded by the Priority Academic Program Development of Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions(PAPD),China(No.[2014].37)
文摘An android-based lace image retrieval system based on content-based image retrieval (CBIR) technique is presented. This paper applies shape and texture features of lace image in our system and proposes a hierarchical multifeature scheme to facilitate coarseto-fine matching for efficient lace image retrieval in a large database. Experimental results demonstrate the feasibility and effectiveness of the proposed system meet the requirements of realtime.
基金supported by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) research grants 194376 and 185986Manitoba Centre of Excellence Fund(MCEF) grant and Canadian Network Centre of Excellence(NCE) and Canadian Arthritis Network(CAN) grant SRI-BIO-05.
文摘The problem considered in this paper is how to detect the degree of similarity in the content of digital images useful in image retrieval,i.e.,to what extent is the content of a query image similar to content of other images.The solution to this problem results from the detection of subsets that are rough sets contained in covers of digital images determined by perceptual tolerance relations(PTRs).Such relations are defined within the context of perceptual representative spaces that hearken back to work by J.H.Poincare on representative spaces as models of physical continua.Classes determined by a PTR provide content useful in content-based image retrieval(CBIR).In addition,tolerance classes provide a means of determining when subsets of image covers are tolerance rough sets(TRSs).It is the nearness of TRSs present in image tolerance spaces that provide a promising approach to CBIR,especially in cases such as satellite images or aircraft identification where there are subtle differences between pairs of digital images,making it difficult to quantify the similarities between such images.The contribution of this article is the introduction of the nearness of tolerance rough sets as an effective means of measuring digital image similarities and,as a significant consequence,successfully carrying out CBIR.
文摘<div style="text-align:justify;"> An image retrieval system was developed purposely to provide an efficient tool for a set of images from a collection of images in the large database that matches the user’s requirements in similarity evaluations such as image content similarity, edge, and colour similarity. Retrieving images based on the contents which are colour, texture, and shape is called content-based image retrieval (CBIR). This paper discusses and describes about the colour features technique for image retrieval systems. Several colour features technique and algorithms produced by the previous researcher are used to calculate the similarity between extracted features. This paper also describes about the specific technique about the colour basis features and combined features (hybrid techniques) between colour and shape features. </div>
文摘Cloth image retrieval in E-Commerce is a challenging task. In this paper, we propose an effective approach to solve this problem. Our work chooses three features for retrieval: (1) description (2) category (3) color features. It can handle clothes with multiple colors, complex background, and model disturbances. To evaluate the proposed method, we collect a set of women cloth images from Amazon.com. Results reported here demonstrate the robustness and effectiveness of our retrieval method.
文摘The development of medical images acquisition and storage technology has led to the rapid growth of the relevant data.Retrieval of similar medical images can effectively help doctors to diagnose diseases more accurately.But because of the particularity of medical images,traditional contentbased image retrieval(CBIR)method such as bag-of-words(BOW)cannot be applied to medical images.For example,when retrieving a diseased image,we should not only consider the similar characteristics but also need to consider the type of lesion.And for medical images,images with the same lesion may have different image features,similar images may have different types of lesions.In this paper,a Markov random field(MRF)is structured,and an approximate belief propagation algorithm is used to retrieval images.An adjust-ranking step after initial retrieval is incorporated to further improve the retrieval performance.This paper uses the real brain CT images.The experimental results show that the proposed method can significantly improve the retrieval accuracy and has good efficiency.
基金This work is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 61472161, 61133011, 61402195, 61502198, 61303132, 61202308), Science & Technology Development Project of Jilin Province (No. 20140101201JC).
文摘Much attention has been paid to relevant feedback in intelligent computation for social computing, especially in content-based image retrieval which based on WeChat platform for the medical auxiliary. It has a good effect on reducing the semantic gap between high semantics and low semantics of images. There are many kinds of support vector machines (SVM) based relevance feedback methods in image retrieval, but all of them may encounter some problems, such as a small size of sample, an asymmetric positive sample and negative sample as well as a long feedback cycle. To deal with these problems, an improved asymmetric bagging (IAB) relevance feedback algorithm is proposed. Furthermore, we apply a new fuzzy support machine (FSVM) to cooperate with IAB. To solve the over-fitting and real-time problems, we use modified local binary patterns (MLBP) as image features. Finally, experimental results demonstrate that our method performs other methods in terms of improving retrieval precision as well as retrieval efficiency.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.61862041).
文摘To solve the problem that the existing ciphertext domain image retrieval system is challenging to balance security,retrieval efficiency,and retrieval accuracy.This research suggests a searchable encryption and deep hashing-based secure image retrieval technique that extracts more expressive image features and constructs a secure,searchable encryption scheme.First,a deep learning framework based on residual network and transfer learn-ing model is designed to extract more representative image deep features.Secondly,the central similarity is used to quantify and construct the deep hash sequence of features.The Paillier homomorphic encryption encrypts the deep hash sequence to build a high-security and low-complexity searchable index.Finally,according to the additive homomorphic property of Paillier homomorphic encryption,a similarity measurement method suitable for com-puting in the retrieval system’s security is ensured by the encrypted domain.The experimental results,which were obtained on Web Image Database from the National University of Singapore(NUS-WIDE),Microsoft Common Objects in Context(MS COCO),and ImageNet data sets,demonstrate the system’s robust security and precise retrieval,the proposed scheme can achieve efficient image retrieval without revealing user privacy.The retrieval accuracy is improved by at least 37%compared to traditional hashing schemes.At the same time,the retrieval time is saved by at least 9.7%compared to the latest deep hashing schemes.
基金Supported by Foundation of Northeast Petroleum University(XN2014106)
文摘Medical image application in clinical diagnosis and treatment is becoming more and more widely, How to use a large number of images in the image management system and it is a very important issue how to assist doctors to analyze and diagnose. This paper studies the medical image retrieval based on multi-layer resampling template under the thought of the wavelet decomposition, the image retrieval method consists of two retrieval process which is coarse and fine retrieval. Coarse retrieval process is the medical image retrieval process based on the image contour features. Fine retrieval process is the medical image retrieval process based on multi-layer resampling template, a multi-layer sampling operator is employed to extract image resampling images each layer, then these resampling images are retrieved step by step to finish the process from coarse to fine retrieval.
文摘The paper presents a fast algorithm for image retrieval using multi-channel textural features in medical picture archiving and communication system (PACS). By choosing different linear or nonlinear operators in prediction and update lifting step, the linear or nonlinear M-band wavelet decomposition can be achieved in M-band lifting. It provides the advantages such as fast transform, in-place calculation and integer-integer transform. The set of wavelet moment forms multi-channel textural feature vector related to the texture distribution of each wavelet images. The experimental results of CT image database show that the retrieval approach of multi-channel textural features is effective for image indexing and has lower computational complexity and less memory. It is much easier to implement in hardware and suitable for the applications of real time medical processing system.
基金This work was supported in part by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant No. 61373100, the Virtual Reality Technology and Systems National Key Laboratory of Open Foundation of China under Grant No. BUAA-VR-16KF-13 and the Shanxi Scholarship Council of China under Grant No. 2016-038.
基金supported by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada grant 185986.
文摘Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate the effectiveness and advantages of using perceptual tolerance neighbourhoods in tolerance space-based image similarity measures and its application in content-based image classification and retrieval.Design/methodology/approach–The proposed method in this paper is based on a set-theoretic approach,where an image is viewed as a set of local visual elements.The method also includes a tolerance relation that detects the similarity between pairs of elements,if the difference between corresponding feature vectors is less than a threshold 2(0,1).Findings–It is shown that tolerance space-based methods can be successfully used in a complete content-based image retrieval(CBIR)system.Also,it is shown that perceptual tolerance neighbourhoods can replace tolerance classes in CBIR,resulting in more accuracy and less computations.Originality/value–The main contribution of this paper is the introduction of perceptual tolerance neighbourhoods instead of tolerance classes in a new form of the Henry-Peters tolerance-based nearness measure(tNM)and a new neighbourhood-based tolerance-covering nearness measure(tcNM).Moreover,this paper presents a side–by–side comparison of the tolerance space based methods with other published methods on a test dataset of images.
基金The authors would like to thank the Youth Council Project for the promotion of innovationas well as the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the National Natural Science Foundation for Young Scientists of China,No.40701105.
文摘With the rapid development of satellite remote sensing technology and an ever-increasing number of Earth observation satellites being launched,the global volume of remotely sensed imagery has been growing exponentially.Processing the variety of remotely sensed data has increasingly been complex and difficult.It is also hard to efficiently and intelligently retrieve what users need from a massive database of images.This paper introduces an improved support vector machine(SVM)model,which optimizes the model parameters and selects the feature subset based on the particle swarm optimization(PSO)method and genetic algorithm(GA)for remote sensing image retrieval.The results from an image retrieval experiment show that our method outperforms traditional methods such as GRID,PSO,and GA in terms of consistency and stability.