Методы поиска биомедицинских изображений в базах данных по их содержанию

This paper is dedicated to the problem of image retrieval from large databases of biomedical images using the query by example paradigm. The specific characteristics of biomedical images are briefly discussed in the context of similarity retrieval and possible ways of image searching are outlined. A versatile method is suggested which is based on extended multi-sort and multi-dimensional co-occurrence matrices. The use of the method is illustrated on a variety of image retrieval tasks using real databases of biomedical images of different types.