1Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology, University of Malaya, 50603 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia 2Faculty of Information Science and Technology, COMSATS Institute of Information Technology (CIIT), Park Road, Islamabad 44000, Pakistan 3Faculty of Computing and Information Technology, King Abdulaziz University, North Jeddah Branch, Jeddah 21589, Saudi Arabia 4Machine Intelligence Resea...

Medical images are currently created digitally and stored in the radiology department’s picture archiving and communication system (PACS). Reports are usually stored in the electronic patient record (EPR) of other information systems, such as the radiology information system (RIS) or the hospital information system (HIS). But high-quality service can only be provided if the EPR data is integrat...

One of the central goals of Music Information Retrieval (MIR) is the quantification of similarity between or within pieces of music. These quantitative relations should mirror the human perception of music similarity, which is however highly subjective with low inter-rater agreement. Unfortunately this principal problem has been given little attention in MIR so far. Since it is not meaningful t...