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Combined semantic and similarity search in medical image databases

Sascha Seifert, Marisa Thoma, Florian Stegmaier, Matthias Hammon, Martin Kramer, Martin Huber, Hans-Peter Kriegel, Alexander Cavallaro, Dorin Comaniciu

Presented at SPIE Medical Imaging 2011

Conference Date: Wednesday-Thursday 16 - 17 February 2011
Conference Location: Lake Buena Vista (Orlando), Florida, USA
Conference Title: Medical Imaging 2011: Advanced PACS-based Imaging Informatics and Therapeutic Applications (Conference 7967)
Conference Chairs: William Boonn, Brent J. Liu
Conference Program, Proceedings

Abstract:

The current diagnostic process at hospitals is mainly based on reviewing and comparing images coming from multiple time points and modalities in order to monitor disease progression over a period of time. However, for ambiguous cases the radiologist deeply relies on reference literature or second opinion. Although there is a vast amount of acquired images stored in PACS systems which could be reused for decision support, these data sets suffer from weak search capabilities. Thus, we present a search methodology which enables the physician to fulfill intelligent search scenarios on medical image databases combining ontology-based semantic and appearance-based similarity search. It enabled the elimination of 12% of the top ten hits which would arise without taking the semantic context into account.

Copyright Notes:

Sascha Seifert, Marisa Thoma, Florian Stegmaier, Matthias Hammon, Martin Kramer, Martin Huber, Hans-Peter Kriegel, Alexander Cavallaro, Dorin Comaniciu,
"Combined semantic and similarity search in medical image databases", Proc. SPIE Medical Imaging 2011: Advanced PACS-based Imaging Informatics and Therapeutic Applications, William Boonn and Brent J. Liu, Vol. 7967, 7967-2 (2011)

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DOI: 10.1117/12.878179

BibTeX Citation:

@INPROCEEDINGS{SeiThoSteHam2010,
    AUTHOR      = {Seifert, Sascha and Thoma, Marisa and Stegmaier, Florian and Hammon, Matthias 
                   and Kramer, Martin and Huber, Martin and Kriegel, Hans-Peter 
                   and Cavallaro, Alexander and Comaniciu, Dorin},
    TITLE       = {Combined semantic and similarity search in medical image databases},
    BOOKTITLE   = {SPIE Medical Imaging 2011: Advanced PACS-based Imaging Informatics and Therapeutic 
                   Applications (SPIE), Lake Buena Vista, FL, USA},
    YEAR        = {2011},
    VOLUME      = {7967},
    PAGES       = {7967-2}
}
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