Abstract
Image retrieval based on a query image is necessary for effective and efficient use the information that is stored in medical image databases. Medical Image Retrieval is difficult as not only the localization and directionality of human visual system is to be considered but also the pathological condition. Image identification and segmentation for feature extraction pose a challenge to image retrieval process. Challenges posed include large number of images to be processed for the image retrieval and identifying the region of interest automatically to optimize the search. In this study, we propose a novel image segmentation algorithm Fuzzy Edge Detection and Segmentation (FEDS). The proposed FEDS algorithm is tested on medical images and for classification of images, a bell fuzzy multilayer perceptron is proposed. The proposed neural network Bell Fuzzy Multi Layer Perceptron (BF-MLP) Neural network is constructed by introducing a fuzzy logic in hidden layer with the sugeno model and bell function. The proposed neural network consists of two layers with the first layer being a tanh activation function and the second layer containing the bell fuzzy activation function. The proposed FEDS method was implemented using Matlab and Modelsim. A total of 44 images were considered with three class labels. The edge obtained for which segmentation is done using the proposed segmentation algorithm. The proposed BF-MLP neural network algorithm was implemented using Visual Studio and the classification accuracy compared with MLP Neural Network with sigmoid activation function. In this study, a fuzzy segmentation algorithm and a fuzzy classification algorithm is proposed to improve the medical image retrieval accuracy. The proposed segmentation algorithm, Fuzzy Edge Detection and Segmentation (FEDS), was implemented using Matlab and features were extracted using Fast Hartley Transform (FHT). The extracted features were used to train the proposed neural network, Bell Fuzzy Multi Layer Perceptron Neural Network (BF-MLP). 44 images with 3 class labels were used to test the algorithm and classification accuracy of 93.2% was obtained.
Highlights
With the availability of large amount of digital medical images in databases, image retrieval based on a query image is necessary for effective and efficient use of the information available
Image retrieval based on a query image is necessary for effective and efficient use the information that is stored in medical image databases
We propose a novel image segmentation algorithm Fuzzy Edge Detection and Segmentation (FEDS)
Summary
With the availability of large amount of digital medical images in databases, image retrieval based on a query image is necessary for effective and efficient use of the information available. Content Based Image Retrieval (CBIR) is the process of locating similar picture/pictures in an image database when a query image is provided. When the picture of a car is given, the system should retrieve similar car images in the database. Automated extraction of features from the image is crucial for image retrieval systems (Rui et al, 1999). This is achieved through extracting image features like color, texture and shape. Such image features are compared to the query image and database images. Database images which have same features as the query image (with the highest similarity measure) are ranked and presented to the user
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