A Multimedia Database Server Functionality

This paper presents a dedicated multimedia database server optimized for working with medical images. The presented server can manage alphanumerical and multimedia data collections with at most few tens of thousands records. An element of originality for this system is that along with classical operations for databases, it includes a series of methods used for extracting visual information from images(texture and color characteristics). This information is saved directly into database in a special data type and can be retrieved using methods for text based or content-based queries. These methods are also integrated into the server.