This paper introduces a new approach of approximating the selectivity of multimedia range queries. Estimating the selectivity of a range query is a pre-requisite to optimize a mul...
Storage and retrieval technology for large-scale medical image systems has matured significantly during the past ten years but many implementations still lack cost-effective backu...
H. K. Huang, Aifeng Zhang, Brent J. Liu, Zheng Zho...
Data retrieved from body sensors such as ECG machines and new-generation multi-sensor systems such as respiratory monitors are varied and abundant. Managing and integrating this s...
Alfonso F. Cardenas, Raymond K. Pon, Robert B. Cam...
Spatial data are common in many scientific and commercial domains such as geographical information systems and gene/protein expression profiles. Querying for distribution patterns...
Vishwakarma Singh, Arnab Bhattacharya, Ambuj K. Si...
Figures in digital documents contain important information. Current digital libraries do not summarize and index information available within figures for document retrieval. We pr...
Xiaonan Lu, James Ze Wang, Prasenjit Mitra, C. Lee...