Content-based image retrieval is the set of techniques for retrieving relevant images from an image database on the basis of automatically- derived image features. The need for efficient content-based image re- trieval has increased tremendously in many application areas such as biomedicine, the military, commerce, education, and Web image clas- sification and searching. In the biomedical domain, content-based im- age retrieval can be used in patient digital libraries, clinical diagnosis, searching of 2-D electrophoresis gels, and pathology slides. I started my work on content-based image...
Content-based image retrieval is the set of techniques for retrieving relevant images from an image database on the basis of automatically- derived im...