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  • Medical Imaging
  • Computer Science
  • Artificial Intelligence

Background:

  • Content-Based Medical Image Retrieval (CBMIR) systems are crucial for diagnosing thoracic diseases.
  • The 'Bag of Visual Words' approach with local patch representation is a common CBMIR technique.
  • Selecting an optimal patch size is critical for CBMIR performance but remains challenging.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the impact of different patch sizes on the categorization and retrieval of common thoracic diseases using CBMIR.
  • To determine the optimal patch size and codebook size for improving precision and recall in thoracic disease image retrieval.
  • To evaluate the effectiveness of the 'Bag of Visual Words' approach with varying patch and codebook sizes.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized the Chest Xray8 medical image database, comprising 1000 frontal view X-ray images.
  • Implemented a patch-based image representation using the 'Bag of Visual Words' approach.
  • Experimented with different patch sizes (16x16, 32x32) and codebook sizes (500, 1000, 1500, 2000) with Radial Basis Function SVM kernel.

Main Results:

  • The 32x32 patch size demonstrated superior performance compared to the 16x16 patch size.
  • A codebook size of 1500, in conjunction with the 32x32 patch size, achieved the best precision and recall values.
  • The chosen parameters significantly improved the accuracy of thoracic disease categorization and retrieval.

Conclusions:

  • The optimal patch size for CBMIR of thoracic diseases in the Chest Xray8 dataset is 32x32.
  • A codebook size of 1500 provides the best balance for effective feature representation and retrieval.
  • This research provides valuable insights for optimizing CBMIR systems for medical image analysis.