Hybrid techniques for content based Image retrieval of lung images

Abstract

Prevalence of lung diseases is on the rise in the recent years due to newlineenvironmental and genetic factors and other widespread and deadly newlineconditions that are known to affect most of the people in the world newlineDiagnosing the lung disease is the most challenging task in medical field newlinebecause of its various types The Content Based Image Retrieval CBIR is newlineconsidered to be a supporting tool to diagnose such types of lung diseases newlineCBIR is a technique of searching images based on the content of newlinethe image CBIR in medical domain has a good potential to aid in the newlinediagnosis and to serve as a second opinion to the medical practitioner The newlineconventional CBIR system uses the basic image features such as texture newlineshape and color However to improve the existing CBIR performance and to newlinemake it more effective and efficient one hybrid methodologies are needed newline newline