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Computational Vision and Medical Image Processing IV – João Tavares & Natal Jorge (eds)
© 2014 Taylor & Francis Group, London, ISBN 978-1-138-00081-0
An architecture for content-based diagnostic image retrieval in a
radiology PACS environment
C.A. Berni, J.C.A. Berni & J.A.T. Borges da Costa
Applied Computing Laboratory (LaCA), Federal University of Santa Maria (UFSM),
Santa Maria—RS, Brazil
ABSTRACT: Content-Based Image Retrieval (CBIR) is the concept that expresses the idea of retriev-
ing images that are visually similar to a query image. No textual information like keywords must be given
to an ideal CBIR system. Images are retrieved by their numerical features, measured by well-defined
mathematical relationships between pixel positions and ...