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Diagnosis Support System Providing Guidance to a User by Automated Retrieval of Similar Cancer Images with User Feedback

  • US 20120283574A1
  • Filed: 05/04/2012
  • Published: 11/08/2012
  • Est. Priority Date: 05/06/2011
  • Status: Abandoned Application
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1. A diagnosis support system for a user, comprising:

  • a database containing high-resolution standardized database images that have been clustered into clusters, each cluster having a cluster feature vector computed by image features in regions in said database images in said cluster, using an overlapping clustering algorithm that allows database images to be assigned to more than one cluster; and

    a query-by-example image retrieval application that applies a similarity measure between a query feature vector computed by image features in regions in a query image, and said cluster feature vectors;

    wherein said feature vectors are automatically computed by quantitatively describing image signatures for said images by;

    image segmentation into regions; and

    feature extraction of image features in said regions to compute said feature vectors;

    wherein said query-by-example image retrieval application returns a list of database images similar to said query image, ranked by similarity.

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