Indexing Vertebrae in Shape Space
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چکیده
It has now become common practice to convert text, sound, images, and even videos into digital libraries. As these digital libraries from different resources are communicated and shared across computer networks, an important problem arises: how to efficiently interpret and extract useful information from the massive data for different users. Efficient content-based similarity retrieval in large image databases gains considerable research attention as an important functionality for many applications.
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