Content Based Image Retrieval (CBIR) of Dermatological Images

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Content Based Image Retrieval (CBIR) of
Dermatological Images

• H.H.W.J Bosman, N. Petkov, M.F. Jonkman

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Image retrieval http//images.google.nl
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Image retrieval http//images.google.nl
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CBIR - what is it?

• Search for images that are similar to an input
  image
• Features that might indicate similarity
• Color
• Texture
• Shape
• Text tags
• etc...

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iMedia Project select query
http//www-rocq.inria.fr/cgi-bin/imedia/circario.c
gi/v2std
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iMedia Project query results
http//www-rocq.inria.fr/cgi-bin/imedia/circario.c
gi/v2std
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GIFT select query
http//viper.unige.ch/demo/php/demo.php
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GIFT query result
http//viper.unige.ch/demo/php/demo.php
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Leiden 19th-Century Portrait Database
http//nies.liacs.nl1860/cgi-bin/FindImage.pl
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Leiden 19th-Century Portrait Database
http//nies.liacs.nl1860/cgi-bin/FindImage.pl
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CBIR in medical settings
http//www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/dcs/research/mim
ic/projects/lisprojectpage
Seeking pathologically similar mammogram
images Dept of Computer Science at Warwick
university
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CBIR in medical settings
http//cobweb.ecn.purdue.edu/cbirdev/WEB_ASSERT/a
ssert.html
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CBIR in dermatology
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CBIR in dermatology
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Methods - the dataset

• 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
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CBIR in dermatology
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CBIR in dermatology
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Results with only color features

• 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.

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From CBIR to CBCR (content based case retrieval)?

• TEST CASE defined by
• PROVOKE query
• Plaats ... Efflorescentie ...
• Rangschikking ...
• Omvang ...
• Kleur/Vorm/Omtrek

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Questions or suggestions?