PathMaster: Content-based Cell Image Retrieval Using Automated Feature Extraction
Author(s) -
Mark E. Mattie,
Lawrence H. Staib,
Eric Stratmann,
Hemant D. Tagare,
John S. Duncan,
Perry L. Miller
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
journal of the american medical informatics association
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.614
H-Index - 150
eISSN - 1527-974X
pISSN - 1067-5027
DOI - 10.1136/jamia.2000.0070404
Subject(s) - computer science , search engine indexing , feature extraction , feature (linguistics) , database index , artificial intelligence , information retrieval , image retrieval , fidelity , medical diagnosis , automatic image annotation , pattern recognition (psychology) , image (mathematics) , pathology , medicine , telecommunications , philosophy , linguistics
Currently, when cytopathology images are archived, they are typically stored with a limited text-based description of their content. Such a description inherently fails to quantify the properties of an image and refers to an extremely small fraction of its information content. This paper describes a method for automatically indexing images of individual cells and their associated diagnoses by computationally derived cell descriptors. This methodology may serve to better index data contained in digital image databases, thereby enabling cytologists and pathologists to cross-reference cells of unknown etiology or nature.
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