Medical Video Analysis

Basic data for this project

Type of project: Own resources project
Duration: 01/04/2015 - 30/09/2018

Description

With the spread of modern image and video cameras and their powerful processing capabilities as well as the advancement of digital image and video processing technology, many medical examinations and surgical interventions are recorded and stored in large-scale heterogeneous medical video archives. These medical archives have become increasingly popular in the field of medicine and healthcare in order to enrich the medical knowledge and decision process and to gain further information about and novel insight into the patients’ surgical interventions. Though the digitization of medical examinations and surgical interventions provides a powerful information source for doctors and patients, the vendor and media diversity makes it difficult to unify the process of information integration and access. Moreover, the lack of semantic annotation inevitably leads to the question of how to efficiently access and analyze medical archives in a content-based way, for instance for the purpose of linking selected images with relevant video segments arising from endoscopic procedures. In this project, we develop and investigate novel content-based approaches for retrieving and analyzing large-scale medical image and video archives.

Keywords: Medical Video Analysis