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01-12-2016 | Original Article

A medical image retrieval scheme with relevance feedback through a medical social network

Authors: Mouhamed Gaith Ayadi, Riadh Bouslimi, Jalel Akaichi

Published in: Social Network Analysis and Mining | Issue 1/2016

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Abstract

Medical social networking sites enabled multimedia content sharing in large volumes, by allowing physicians and patients to upload their medical images. Moreover, it is necessary to employ new techniques in order to effectively handle and benefit from them. This huge volume of images needs to formulate new types of queries that pose complex questions to medical social network databases. Content-based image retrieval (CBIR) stills an active and efficient research topic to manipulate medical images. In order to palliate this situation, we propose in this paper the integration of a content-based medical image retrieval method through a medical social network, based on an efficient fusion of low-level visual image features (color, shape and texture features), which offers an efficient and flexible precision. A clear application of our CBIR system consists of providing stored images that are visually similar to a new (undiagnosed) one, allowing specialist and patients to check past examination diagnoses from comments and other physicians’ annotations, and to establish, therefore, a new diagnostic or to prepare a new report of an image’s examination. To scale up the performance of the integrated CBIR system, we implement a relevance feedback method. It is an effective method to bridge the semantic gap between low-level visual features and high-level semantic meanings. Experiments show that the proposed medical image retrieval scheme achieves better performance and accuracy in retrieving images. However, we need also to verify whether our approach is considered by the specialists as a potential aid in a real environment. To do so, we evaluate our methodology’s impact in the user’s decision, inquiring the specialists about the degree of confidence in the retrieval system. By analyzing the obtained results, we can argue that the proposed methodology presented a high acceptance regarding the specialists’ interests in the clinical practice domain and can improve the decision-making process during analysis.
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Metadata
Title
A medical image retrieval scheme with relevance feedback through a medical social network
Authors
Mouhamed Gaith Ayadi
Riadh Bouslimi
Jalel Akaichi
Publication date
01-12-2016
Publisher
Springer Vienna
Published in
Social Network Analysis and Mining / Issue 1/2016
Print ISSN: 1869-5450
Electronic ISSN: 1869-5469
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s13278-016-0362-9

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