title: BRISC-an open source pulmonary nodule image retrieval framework.
abstract: We have created a content-based image retrieval framework for computed tomography images of pulmonary nodules. When presented with a nodule image, the system retrieves images of similar nodules from a collection prepared by the Lung Image Database Consortium (LIDC). The system (1) extracts images of individual nodules from the LIDC collection based on LIDC expert annotations, (2) stores the extracted data in a flat XML database, (3) calculates a set of quantitative descriptors for each nodule that provide a high-level characterization of its texture, and (4) uses various measures to determine the similarity of two nodules and perform queries on a selected query nodule. Using our framework, we compared three feature extraction methods: Haralick co-occurrence, Gabor filters, and Markov random fields. Gabor and Markov descriptors perform better at retrieving similar nodules than do Haralick co-occurrence techniques, with best retrieval precisions in excess of 88%. Because the software we have developed and the reference images are both open source and publicly available they may be incorporated into both commercial and academic imaging workstations and extended by others in their research.
authors: James Madison University, 20002 Wooded View Lane, Elkton, VA 22827, USA. michael.o.lam@gmail.com
authors: Michael O
authors: MO
authors: Lam
authors: Tim
authors: T
authors: Disney
authors: Daniela S
authors: DS
authors: Raicu
authors: Jacob
authors: J
authors: Furst
authors: David S
authors: DS
authors: Channin
mesh_terms: D003628:Database Management Systems; D019992:Databases as Topic; D003936:Diagnosis, Computer-Assisted; D006801:Humans; D007091:Image Processing, Computer-Assisted; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D011873:Radiology Information Systems; D012984:Software; D012985:Software Design; D003074:Solitary Pulmonary Nodule / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D014584:User-Computer Interface
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