This paper presents a dominant color descriptor technique for medical image retrieval. The medical image system will collect and store into medical database. The purpose of dominant color descriptor (DCD) technique is to retrieve medical image and to display similar image using queried image. First, this technique will search and retrieve medical image based on keyword entered by user. After im...

The Medical image database is growing day by day. There are various categories of medical images [1] such as CT scan, XRay, Ultrasound, Pathology, MRI, Microscopy, etc. Physicians compare previous and current medical images associated with patients to provide right treatment. Medical Imaging is playing a leading role in modern diagnosis. Efficient image retrieval tools are needed to retrieve th...

The Medical image database is growing day by day [1]. Most of the medical images are stored in DICOM (Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine) format. There are various categories of medical images such as CT scan, XRay, Ultrasound, Pathology, MRI, Microscopy, etc [2]. Physicians compare previous and current medical images associated patients to provide right treatment. Medical Imaging i...

With the development of the internet, medical images are now available in large numbers in online repositories, and there exists the need to retrieval the medical images in the content-based ways through automatically extracting visual information of the medical images. Since a single feature extracted from images just characterizes certain aspect of image content, multiple features are necessa...