Omar Alqahtani, Mohamed Ghouse^*, Asfia Sabahath, Omer Bin Hussain, Arshiya Begum

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.83, No.2, pp. 2221-2244, 2025, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2025.061977 - 16 April 2025

Abstract This paper introduces a novel method for medical image retrieval and classification by integrating a multi-scale encoding mechanism with Vision Transformer (ViT) architectures and a dynamic multi-loss function. The multi-scale encoding significantly enhances the model’s ability to capture both fine-grained and global features, while the dynamic loss function adapts during training to optimize classification accuracy and retrieval performance. Our approach was evaluated on the ISIC-2018 and ChestX-ray14 datasets, yielding notable improvements. Specifically, on the ISIC-2018 dataset, our method achieves an F1-Score improvement of +4.84% compared to the standard ViT, with a precision increase of +5.46% More >

Shaozheng Zhang, Qiuyu Zhang^*, Jiahui Tang, Ruihua Xu

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.82, No.2, pp. 2137-2158, 2025, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2024.057269 - 17 February 2025

Abstract Medical institutions frequently utilize cloud servers for storing digital medical imaging data, aiming to lower both storage expenses and computational expenses. Nevertheless, the reliability of cloud servers as third-party providers is not always guaranteed. To safeguard against the exposure and misuse of personal privacy information, and achieve secure and efficient retrieval, a secure medical image retrieval based on a multi-attention mechanism and triplet deep hashing is proposed in this paper (abbreviated as MATDH). Specifically, this method first utilizes the contrast-limited adaptive histogram equalization method applicable to color images to enhance chest X-ray images. Next, a… More >

Ali Ahmed^1,*, Alaa Omran Almagrabi², Omar M. Barukab³

Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing, Vol.37, No.2, pp. 2355-2370, 2023, DOI:10.32604/iasc.2023.039847 - 21 June 2023

Abstract Content-based medical image retrieval (CBMIR) is a technique for retrieving medical images based on automatically derived image features. There are many applications of CBMIR, such as teaching, research, diagnosis and electronic patient records. Several methods are applied to enhance the retrieval performance of CBMIR systems. Developing new and effective similarity measure and features fusion methods are two of the most powerful and effective strategies for improving these systems. This study proposes the relative difference-based similarity measure (RDBSM) for CBMIR. The new measure was first used in the similarity calculation stage for the CBMIR using an More >