Refereed full papers (journals, book chapters, international conferences)

1999

@article{SBK1999,
	vgclass =	{refpap},
	vgproject =	{cbir},
	author =	{Chi-Ren Shyu and Carla E. Brodley and Avinash C. Kak and
	Akio Kosaka and Alex M. Aisen and Lynn S. Broderick},
	title =	{{ASSERT}: A Physician-in-the-Loop Content-Based Retrieval
	System for {HRCT} Image Databases},
	journal =	{Computer Vision and Image Understanding (special issue on content-based access for image
	and video libraries)},
	volume =	{75},
	number =	{1/2},
	pages =	{111--132},
	month =	{July/August},
	year =	{1999},
	abstract =	{It is now recognized in many domains that content-based
	image retrieval from a database of images cannot be carried out by
	using completely automated approaches. One such domain is medical
	radiology for which the clinically useful information in an image
	typically consists of gray level variations in highly localized regions
	of the image. Currently, it is not possible to extract these regions by
	automatic image segmentation techniques. To address this problem, we
	have implemented a human-in-the-loop (a physician-in-the-loop, more
	specifically) approach in which the human delineates the pathology
	bearing regions (PBR) and a set of anatomical landmarks in the image
	when the image is entered into the database. To the regions thus
	marked, our approach applies low-level computer vision and image
	processing algorithms to extract attributes related to the variations
	in gray scale, texture, shape, etc. In addition, the system records
	attributes that capture relational information such as the position of
	a PBR with respect to certain anatomical landmarks. An overall
	multidimensional index is assigned to each image based on these
	attribute values.},
}