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Research ArticleOpen accessEvery word in the titleSOFT COMPUTING BASED MEDICAL IMAGE RETRIEVAL USING SHAPE AND TEXTURE FEATURESM. Mary Helta Daisy, S. Tamil SelviImage retrieval is a challenging and important research applications like digital libraries and medical image databases. Content-based image retrieval is useful in retrieving images from database based on the feature vector generated with the help of the image features. In this study, we present image retrieval based on the genetic algorithm. The shape feature and morphological based texture features are … …American Journal of Applied Sciences, Vol. 11, Issue 2 · 24 Dec 2013 · 6,579 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessEvery word in the titleResponses of Emergency Unit Physicians and Administrators to Q-Statements Regarding Quality of Medical Services at Emergency Unit at Al Kindy Teaching HospitalLujain Anwar Al-KhazragyThe aim of this study is to evaluate the quality of medical services applied at the emergency unit at Al-kindy teaching hospital. Data were collected during one month duration through a survey using special form of questioner; the total number of studied sample was 51, which includes all the resident doctors working in the emergency unit including the post graduate … …American Journal of Infectious Diseases, Vol. 4, Issue 2 · 30 Jun 2008 · 6,680 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessEvery word in the titleMedical Consequences of Drug Abuse and Co-occurring Infections: A Brief ReviewJag H. KhalsaToday substance abuse remains one of the major problems in the world with millions of people abusing legal and illegal drugs. In addition, almost one-third of the world population of 6.7 billion people may also be infected with one or more infections. Both drugs of abuse and infections are associated with enormous burden of social, economic and health consequences. This … …American Journal of Infectious Diseases, Vol. 3, Issue 4 · 31 Dec 2007 · 6,732 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessEvery word in the titleA Hybrid Fuzzy Neural Networks for the Detection of Tumors in Medical ImagesN. Benamrane, A. Freville, R. NekkacheIn this study, we propose an approach to detect suspect zones or tumors in medical images. The idea is to define with precision the existence of different kinds of lesions using a hybrid system, which combines Fuzzy Neural Networks and Expert System. After applying a method of image segmentation to extract regions (by region growing algorithm or by mathematical morphology … …American Journal of Applied Sciences, Vol. 2, Issue 4 · 30 Apr 2005 · 6,873 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessEvery word in the titleFunctional Evaluation of Polydioxanone Threads Coated with Polyethylene Glycol and Amino Acids for Medical ApplicationEunji Park, Tae Su Jang, Jae Kyung KimPolydioxanone (PDO) is a biodegradable polymer with multiple medical applications. Recently, various coatings have been applied to products made of biodegradable polymers, in order to improve functionality. Polyethylene Glycol (PEG) hydrogels have demonstrated remarkable potential in accelerating wound healing and amino acids have been reported to stimulate protein synthesis in vivo and in vitro. The purpose of this study was … …American Journal of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, Vol. 20, Issue 2 · 24 May 2024 · 5,599 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessEvery word in the titleAutomatic Skin Lesion Diagnosis and Medical ReportGeneration Based on Image CaptioningAbdelouahed Sabri, Chaimae Zouitni, Hamza El Medhoune, Abdellah AarabCaptioning or textual description of the visual content of imagesinvolves generating meaningful words and sentences to describe the contentof an image. This work lies at the crossroads of Natural LanguageProcessing (NLP) and computer vision. When dealing with medical imagesand especially skin lesions, it goes beyond simple classification to generatedetailed textual reports describing the skin lesion's conditioncomprehensively. Such reports are crucial … …Journal of Computer Science, Vol. 21, Issue 5 · 13 May 2025 · 5,422 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessEvery word in the titleMEDICAL IMAGE COMPRESSION TECHNIQUE USING LISTLESS SET PARTITIONING IN HIERARCHICAL TREES AND CONTEXTUAL VECTOR QUANTIZATION FOR BRAIN IMAGESS. Sridevi, V. R. VijayakumarA hybrid image compression techniques has been developed to compress medical images. Due to the extensive use of medical images like CT and MR scan, these medical imagery are stored for a longer period for the continuous monitoring of the patients and the amount of data associated with images is large and it occupies enormous storage capacity. So, the medical … …Journal of Computer Science, Vol. 9, Issue 9 · 6 Aug 2013 · 7,194 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessEvery word in the titleContent Based Medical Image Retrieval with Texture Content Using Gray Level Co-occurrence Matrix and K-Means Clustering AlgorithmsB. Ramamurthy, K. R. ChandranProblem statement: Recently, there has been a huge progress in collection of varied image databases in the form of digital. Most of the users found it difficult to search and retrieve required images in large collections. In order to provide an effective and efficient search engine tool, the system has been implemented. In image retrieval system, there is no methodologies … …Journal of Computer Science, Vol. 8, Issue 7 · 24 May 2012 · 7,448 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessEvery word in the titleThe Trend of Smoking Behavior and its Relation to Health Knowledge among Medical and Literature CollegesWijdan Akram, Selwa Elias Yacoub, Ali Abed Ali Al Saedi, Yousif Abdul RaheemProblem statement: Smoking is a major public health problem all around the world, especially in developing countries when smoking behavior among college students is a major concern to the society. Object of this study to estimate the prevalence of smoking among university students of medical and literature colleges and to assess the students’ knowledge about the health effects of smoking … …American Journal of Infectious Diseases, Vol. 7, Issue 2 · 30 Sep 2011 · 8,169 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessEvery word in the titleMedical Image Compression Using Fuzzy C-Means Based Contourlet TransformM. Tamilarasi, V. PalanisamyProblem statement: To meet the demand for high speed transmission of image in efficient image storage and remote medical treatment, the efficient image compression is essential. The contourlet transform along with wavelet theory has great potential in medical image compression. Approach: The significant portion of the medical image applied with Fuzzy C-means based contourlet transform. DWT applied to the rest … …Journal of Computer Science, Vol. 7, Issue 9 · 25 Jul 2011 · 7,082 accessesView PDFCite