A Web-Based CBIR-Assisted Learning Tool for Radiology Education - Anytime and Anyplace

In this paper, we propose a web-based learning tool for assisting and enhancing radiology education. Central to the learning tool is our recently developed content-based image retrieval (CBIR) system for medical image databases. In contrast to the leaming resources available through traditional radiology curricula, our leaming tool represents a more flexible, instantly updateable, and a richer learning environment that can be used anytime and anyplace. Experts from diverse disciplines -radiology, computer vision, and education -had to pool their knowledge and resources together to bring about the development of this leaming tool.