Research ArticleOpen accessIn the keywordsA Cloud-Based Approach for Privacy-Preserving Medical Image Retrieval: Leveraging Local Features and PCA in Two Efficient StepsM Geetha Yadav, SP ChokkalingamThe major challenges of content-based image retrieval are searching, ranking, and retrieving in secure mode. In this article, we propose a two-step security approach for each database image, utilizing encryption mechanisms and cloud technology. In this approach, the watermark-embedded encrypted images, along with the efficient feature vector database and the list of authenticated users, will be stored in the cloud. … …Journal of Computer Science, Vol. 20, Issue 12 · 4 Nov 2024 · 4,290 accessesView PDFCite