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CANDID: Comparison algorithm for navigating digital image databases


Author(s) : T. M. Cannon P. M. Kelly, 
Publisher : N/A
Publication Date : 1994
ISSN : N/A
Abstract : In this paper, we propose a method for calculating the similarity between two digital images. A global signature describing the texture, shape, or color content is first computed for every image stored in a database, and a normalized distance between probability density functions of feature vectors is used to match signatures. This method can be used to retrieve images from a database that are similar to an example target image. This algorithm is applied to the problem of search and retrieval for a database containing pulmonary CT imagery, and experimental results are provided. 1,