Case-based reasoning (CBR) in endoscopic images diagnosis aid

The computerized and sophisticated version of medical atlases aims at constituting iconographic bases and at developing "intelligent" tools, thus allowing image retrieval according to several modalities. Such atlases are consequently used as assistance tools for physicians, at the same time for medical diagnosis, formation and research. Therefore, the study described is directed at upper digestive endoscopy and its imagery with the aim of conceiving a computer-assisted diagnosis system. It will be articulated around a base of images on which will be supported case-based reasoning), adapted to elucidate a case-in fact, to find the similar ones to it. Moreover, a knowledge base describing endoscopic pathologies is destined to take place of a control unit of coherence for similarities search.