Efficient and robust large medical image retrieval in mobile cloud computing environment

  • Authors:
  • Yi Zhuang;Nan Jiang;Zhiang Wu;Qing Li;Dickson K. W. Chiu;Hua Hu

  • Affiliations:
  • College of Computer & Information Engineering, Zhejiang Gongshang University, Hangzhou, PR China;Hangzhou First People's Hospital, Hangzhou, PR China;Jiangsu Provincial Key Laboratory of E-Business, Nanjing University of Finance and Economics, Nanjing, PR China;Department of Computer Science, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region;Faculty of Education, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region;School of Computer, Hangzhou Dianzi University, Hangzhou, PR China

  • Venue:
  • Information Sciences: an International Journal
  • Year:
  • 2014

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Abstract

This paper presents an efficient and robust content-based large medical image retrieval method in mobile Cloud computing environment, called the Mirc. The whole query process of the Mirc is composed of three steps. First, when a clinical user submits a query image I"q, a parallel image set reduction process is conducted at a master node. Then the candidate images are transferred to the slave nodes for a refinement process to obtain the answer set. The answer set is finally transferred to the query node. The proposed method including an priority-based robust image block transmission scheme is specifically designed for solving the instability and the heterogeneity of the mobile cloud environment, and an index-support image set reduction algorithm is introduced for reducing the data transfer cost involved. We also propose a content-aware and bandwidth-conscious multi-resolution-based image data replica selection method and a correlated data caching algorithm to further improve the query performance. The experimental results show that the performance of our approach is both efficient and effective, minimizing the response time by decreasing the network transfer cost while increasing the parallelism of I/O and CPU.