Content-based retrieval and data mining of a skin cancer image database

Author

Chung, Soon M. ; Wang, Qing

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Eng., Wright State Univ., Dayton, OH, USA

fYear

2001

fDate

36982

Firstpage

611

Lastpage

615

Abstract

Skin cancer is the most common type of cancer in the USA. A large, shared skin cancer image database on the Internet would be quite valuable to both medical professionals and consumers. In this paper, such a database is created using a three-tier system: a client application implemented in Java applets, a Web server and a back-end database server. JDBC-ODBC is used for the Web server to communicate with the database server. Various browsing and content-based retrieval methods are supported for the skin cancer image database through Web-based graphical user interfaces. A data mining algorithm for finding association rules between different features of the skin cancer images is also implemented

Keywords

Internet; cancer; client-server systems; content-based retrieval; data mining; distributed databases; distributed programming; graphical user interfaces; image retrieval; information resources; medical information systems; skin; visual databases; Internet; JDBC-ODBC; Java applets; Web server; Web-based graphical user interfaces; association rule discovery; back-end database server; browsing; client application; content-based retrieval; data mining; image features; multimedia database; skin cancer image database; Biomedical imaging; Content based retrieval; Data mining; Image databases; Image retrieval; Information retrieval; Internet; Skin cancer; Spatial databases; Web server;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Information Technology: Coding and Computing, 2001. Proceedings. International Conference on

Conference_Location

Las Vegas, NV

Print_ISBN

0-7695-1062-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ITCC.2001.918864

Filename

918864