A survey of techniques used in processing and mining of medical images

Abstract

Medical image processing is the method to enhance and derive meaningful information from digital medical images. Large collection of medical images has led to the rise in some medical information retrieval system whose aim is storing images, retrieval of images, pattern reorganization etc. All of these are done so that some useful knowledge and information might be derived from them. If proper information can be retrieved from the images, it will help in diagnosis, research and education. This paper studies the various image processing and image mining techniques applied on medical images and their utility. This paper helps to understand the different techniques used in different phases of medical image processing and mining like pre-processing, feature extraction, segmentation, classification, indexing, storing and retrieval. This paper concludes by providing possible directions in future work.