Research Plan for the Development of a Content Based Image Retrieval Testbed

Specific Aim 1: The development of a very large and continuously expanding comprehensive archive of pathologic images accessed via Internet web browsers.

Specific Aim 2: The annotation of a reliable set of text indexed images to serve as a testbed for the CBIR toolkit development.

Specific Aim 3: The development of CBIR tools (a CBIR search engine) for interactively interrogating the database and for viewing the image data on standard PC platforms.

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Non UPMC

Images

UPMC-HS & UP Images

Image QC &

Annotation

Specific Aim #1

Specific Aim #3

Image Database & Repository

Specific Aim #2

WWW Inter face & Search Engine

Text Based Indexing

SNOMED

& UMLS

Image

Based Indexing

(CBIR)

CBIR Search Engine Development with Pittsburgh Super-Computing Center

Specific Aim 1: The development of a very large and continuously expanding comprehensive archive of pathologic images accessed via Internet web browsers.