Comparative investigations of similarity measure exploited in medical images preselection

Nowadays, the most significant impact of digital image processing in the area of applications are real–world problems. Many new technological trends in medicine and digital processing have been implemented. Several factors indicate such development. A major one is the perpetually declining cost of the computer equipment required. Both processing unit and capacity of storage devices continue to become less expensive year by year. Another factor is the increasing availability of equipment for digitising and displaying images. In modern image processing, images have to be compared each other because such approach allows us to automate of retrieval process. Computer image retrieving is today especially important in medical diagnostics [1,7] or in preliminary images selection [8,9]. Today, in the digital image processing are used techniques and methods which have well known mathematical backgrounds. It can be observed, that in the area of digital signal processing, the Hough and well known the Fourier transform are exploited very often. These transforms are frequently use in image retrieving and can be implemented as computer applications. In many cases the mentioned methods give promising results in images classification or preselection [1,2,4,5,11]. Special properties of such transforms can be used in statistical or comparative goals, especially when searched information has graphic form. Taking into account the mentioned applications, transforms as methods of preliminary medical images selection have been investigated. From this reason pictures, analysing in the paper, to medical images have been limited.