The demand for automatically annotating and retrieving medical images is growing faster than ever. In this paper, we present a novel medical image retrieval method for a special medical image retrieval problem where the images in the retrieval database can be annotated into one of the pre-defined labels. Even more, a user may query the database with an image that is close to but not exactly wha...

BACKGROUND Family planning clinicians were trained to provide one-to-one behaviour change counselling to deprived teenage women. They facilitated 'if-then' planning designed to increase adherence to contraception and to overcome potential barriers to adherence. METHODS Reasons for consultation at the clinic were obtained from electronic records and compared before and after the intervention. ...