Henning Müller, Patrick Ruch, David McG. Squire, Christian Lovis and Antoine Geissbuhler,
Using open source software for medical image retrieval,
In Proceedings of the 11th World Congress on Medical
Informatics (MEDINFO 2004),
San Francisco, CA, USA, September 7-11 2004. (poster)The rising amount of visual medical data creates a need for new tools for retrieval and management of audiovisual documents. Content-based visual retrieval is such a technology, allowing the navigation of image databases without the use of text-based queries. This is used to support the finding of images for research and teaching, and also as a diagnostic aid in fields such as evidence-based medicine. Being a research domain, the exchange of system components and technologies is important for efficient development. Open Source software allows such an exchange through code.