The application of the Image Understanding Technology to Semantic Organisation and Content-Based Searching in Multimedia Medical Data Bases

Abstract

In recent years the knowledge of engineering has become one of the most dynamically developing branches of intelligent IT systems, including the PACS, Computer-Aided Diagnosis and medical data bases. Specialist medical data bases storing data in visual form constitute a large group of multimedia data bases; those patterns originate from numerous diagnostic examinations of practically all organs of the human body. One of the main problems with accessing and analysing information collected in this way is how to transform efficiently the visual information transfer of those patterns into a form enabling intelligent analysis and understanding of medical meaning of these patterns.