1. Middlesex Medical Image Repository Dr. Yu Qian y.qian@mdx.ac.uk

2. MIRAGE ( Middlesex medical Image Repository with a CBIR ArchivinG Environment )  Aim: To develop a repository of medical images benefiting MSc and research students in the immediate term and serve a wider community in the long term in providing a rich supply of medical images for data mining, to complement MU current online e-learning system, OASIS+.  Collaboration between three parties at MU, including EIS,CLQE and CIE.  http://image.mdx.ac.uk/ http://image.mdx.ac.uk/ JISC  Innovation in the use of ICT for education and research.  http://www.jisc.ac.uk/ http://www.jisc.ac.uk/

3. Content-Based Image Retrieval (CBIR) CBIR can index an image using visual contents that an image is carrying, such as colour, texture, shape and location.  Query by Example (QBE)  Query by Feature (QBF)  Query by Sketch(QBS) For example:

4. Colour-Based Retrieval

5. Texture-Based Retrieval

6. Shape-Based Retrieval

7. Query by Feature

8. Query by Sketch

9. The need CBIR for medical images  For teaching and learning CBIR for 2D Medical Image ----GIFT Demo: http://image.mdx.ac.uk/