RESEARCH ARTICLE


Combining Textual and Visual Information for Image Retrieval in the Medical Domain



Yiannis Gkoufas*, Anna Morou*, Theodore Kalamboukis*
Department of Informatics, Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece


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* Address correspondence to these authors at the Department of Informatics, Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece; Tel: +302108203575; Fax: +302108676265; E-mails: gkoufas@aueb.gr, morou@aueb.gr, tzk@aueb.gr


Abstract

In this article we have assembled the experience obtained from our participation in the imageCLEF evaluation task over the past two years. Exploitation on the use of linear combinations for image retrieval has been attempted by combining visual and textual sources of images. From our experiments we conclude that a mixed retrieval technique that applies both textual and visual retrieval in an interchangeably repeated manner improves the performance while overcoming the scalability limitations of visual retrieval. In particular, the mean average precision (MAP) has increased from 0.01 to 0.15 and 0.087 for 2009 and 2010 data, respectively, when content-based image retrieval (CBIR) is performed on the top 1000 results from textual retrieval based on natural language processing (NLP).

Keywords: Information storage and retrieval, data fusion, content based image retrieval, digital libraries.