Abstract
We present a novel Content Based Medical Image Retrieval (CBMIR) scheme for color endoscopic images using Multi-scale Geometric Analysis (MGA) of Nonsubsampled Contourlet Transform (NSCT) and the statistical framework based on Generalized Gaussian Density (GGD) model and Kullback-Leibler Distance (KLD). The subband images obtained from the NSCT decomposition are divided into number of blocks and then the coefficients of each block of each subband is modeled with GGD parameters and computing the similarity using the KLD among the model parameters. The retrieval performance of the proposed system is further improved using Least Square-Support Vector Machine (LSSVM) classifier. Extensive experiments were carried out to evaluate the effectiveness of the proposed system on endoscopic image databases consisting of 276 images. Experimental results show that the proposed CBMIR system performs efficiently in image retrieval paradigm.
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