Visual media has always been the most enjoyed way of communication. From the advent of television to the modern day hand held computers, we have witnessed the exponential growth of images around us. Undoubtedly it’s a fact that they carry a lot of information in them which needs be utilized in an effective manner. Hence intense need has been felt to efficiently index and store large image colle...

Basic group of visual techniques such as color, shape, texture are used in Content Based Image Retrievals (CBIR) to retrieve query image or sub region of image to find similar images in image database. To improve query result, relevance feedback is used many times in CBIR to help user to express their preference and improve query results. In this paper, a new approach for image retrieval is pro...

In the early years of the Internet, online communities (OC) were considered primarily a social phenomenon. However, the last five years have seen a paradigm shift in the methodologies used lo support virtual communities. The commercial sector had been quick to recognise the benefits of adding more depth and vitality to their sites through the inclusion and encouragement of user created content....

Content-Based Image Retrieval (CBIR) technology has been proposed to benefit not only the management of increasingly large medical image collections, but also to aid clinical care, biomedical research, and education. Based on a literature review, we conclude that there is widespread enthusiasm for CBIR in the engineering research community, but the application of this technology to solve practi...

Content-based Image Retrieval (CBIR) is a flexible approach to access modern image database with large data size, whereby the actual images are described by multi-dimensional feature vectors. These are then indexed in the database to provide low retrieval latency. Currently, many different structures have been proposed, among them, the structures of the R-tree family, especially the R-tree, R*-...

Child abuse pediatricians have multiple roles in caring for abused children, including prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and, when needed, expert legal opinion. The child physical abuse consultation differs from the traditional medical consultation in that it has medical, investigative and legal audiences, all of whom have different information needs. How child abuse pediatricians approach thei...