Novel Algorithm for Classification of Medical Images
Bharat Bhushan, Monika Juneja, Rahul B. Patel, B. P. Singh · AIP conference proceedings · 2010
Content-based image retrieval (CBIR) methods in medical image databases have been designed to support specific tasks, such as retrieval of medical images.These methods cannot be transferred to other medical applications since different imaging modalities require different types of processing.To enable content-based queries in diverse collections of medical images, the retrieval system must be familiar with the current Image class prior to the query processing.Further, almost all of them deal with the DICOM imaging format.In this paper a novel algorithm based on energy information obtained from wavelet transform for the classification of medical images according to their modalities is described.For this two types of wavelets have been used and have been shown that energy obtained in either case is quite distinct for each of the body part.This technique can be successfully applied to different image formats.The results are shown for JPEG imaging format.I.