Transcript Content Based Image Retrieval (CBIR) of Dermatological Images

Content Based Image Retrieval (CBIR)
of Dermatological Images
H.H.W.J Bosman, N. Petkov, M.F. Jonkman
Image retrieval: http://images.google.nl
Image retrieval: http://images.google.nl
CBIR - what is it?
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Search for images that are similar to an input
image
Features that might indicate similarity
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Color
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Texture
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Shape
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Text tags
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etc...
iMedia Project – select query
http://www-rocq.inria.fr/cgi-bin/imedia/circario.cgi/v2std
iMedia Project – query results
http://www-rocq.inria.fr/cgi-bin/imedia/circario.cgi/v2std
GIFT – select query
http://viper.unige.ch/demo/php/demo.php
GIFT – query result
http://viper.unige.ch/demo/php/demo.php
Leiden 19th-Century Portrait Database
http://nies.liacs.nl:1860/cgi-bin/FindImage.pl
Leiden
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19 -Century
Portrait Database
http://nies.liacs.nl:1860/cgi-bin/FindImage.pl
CBIR in medical settings
http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/dcs/research/mimic/projects/lisprojectpag
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Seeking pathologically similar mammogram images
Dept of Computer Science at Warwick university
CBIR in medical settings
http://cobweb.ecn.purdue.edu/~cbirdev/WEB_ASSERT/assert.htm
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CBIR in dermatology
CBIR in dermatology
Methods - the dataset
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211 dermatological images from the UMCG
image database
Divided into 4 classes: Red, White, Blue,
Brown
Manually selecting area of
healthy skin (70,110,90) and
lesion skin (120,95,80)
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CBIR in dermatology
CBIR in dermatology
CBIR in dermatology
Results with only color features
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75% correct retrieval
White is retrieved best
Blue is the most difficult to retrieve
Results vary with the ‘goodness’ of the
selection of different regions.
From CBIR to CBCR (content based
case retrieval)
TEST CASE defined by
PROVOKE query:
Plaats: ...
Rangschikking: ...
Omvang: ...
Kleur/Vorm/Omtrek:
Efflorescentie: ...
Questions or suggestions?