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Medical images play a central role in patient diagnosis, therapy, surgical planning, medical reference, and medical training. With the advent of digital imaging modalities, as well as images digitized from conventional devices, collections of medical images are increasingly being held in digital form. Due to the large number of images without text information, content-based medical image retrieval has received increased attention.
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Stanescu, L., Burdescu, D.D., Brezovan, M., Mihai, C.G. (2012). Introduction. In: Creating New Medical Ontologies for Image Annotation. SpringerBriefs in Electrical and Computer Engineering(). Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-1909-9_1
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