SPIRS: A Web-based Image Retrieval System for Large Biomedical Databases

摘要

PurposeWith the increasing use of images in disease research, education, and clinical medicine, the need for methods that effectively archive, query, and retrieve these images by their content is underscored. This paper describes the implementation of a Web-based retrieval system called SPIRS (Spine Pathology & Image Retrieval System), which permits exploration of a large biomedical database of digitized spine x-ray images and data from a national health survey using a combination of visual and textual queries.