Line Segment-Based Stitched Multipanel Figure Separation for Effective Biomedical CBIR.

KC S, Aafaque A, Antani SK, Thoma GR

Int. J. Patt. Recogn. Artif. Intelligence 31, 1757003 (2017) https://doi.org/10.1142/S0218001417570038.

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Abstract:

We present a novel technique to separate panels from stitched multipanel figures appearing in biomedical research articles. Since such figures may comprise images from different imaging modalities, separating them is a crucial first step for effective biomedical content-based image retrieval (CBIR): multimodal biomedical document classification and/or retrieval, for instance. The method applies local line segment detection based on the gray-level pixel changes. It then applies a line vectorization process that connects prominent broken lines along the panel boundaries while eliminating insignificant line segments within the panels.

KC S, Aafaque A, Antani SK, Thoma GR. Line Segment-Based Stitched Multipanel Figure Separation for Effective Biomedical CBIR. 
Int. J. Patt. Recogn. Artif. Intelligence 31, 1757003 (2017) https://doi.org/10.1142/S0218001417570038.