Large-scale Retrieval for Medical Image Analytics: A Comprehensive Review

Medical image analytics plays a central role in clinical diagnosis, image-guided surgery and pattern discovery. Many protocols and modalities of digital imaging techniques have been adopted to generate medical images, including magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) (Slichter, 2013), computed tomography (CT) (Hsieh, 2009), photon emission tomography (PET) (Bailey et  al., 2005), ultrasound (Szabo, 2004), fluorescence microscopy (Lichtman and Conchello, 2005), X-ray (Lewis, 2004) and others. Generally, these medical images reflect specific aspects (anatomy, function) of tissue types/organs that require an accurate interpretation and analysis from either domain experts or computer-aided decision support.
Source: Medical Image Analysis - Category: Radiology Authors: Source Type: research