• 1. School of Communications and Information Engineering, Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Chongqing 400065, P. R. China;
  • 2. School of Computer Science, China West Normal University, Nanchong, Sichuan 637009, P. R. China;
  • 3. College of Computer Science, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610065, P. R. China;
XU Liming, Email: xulm@cwnu.edu.cn
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Online hashing methods are receiving increasing attention in cross modal medical image retrieval research. However, existing online methods often lack the learning ability to maintain semantic correlation between new and existing data. To this end, we proposed online semantic similarity cross-modal hashing (OSCMH) learning framework to incrementally learn compact binary hash codes of medical stream data. Within it, a sparse representation of existing data based on online anchor datasets was designed to avoid semantic forgetting of the data and adaptively update hash codes, which effectively maintained semantic correlation between existing and arriving data and reduced information loss as well as improved training efficiency. Besides, an online discrete optimization method was proposed to solve the binary optimization problem of hash code by incrementally updating hash function and optimizing hash code on medical stream data. Compared with existing online or offline hashing methods, the proposed algorithm achieved average retrieval accuracy improvements of 12.5% and 14.3% on two datasets, respectively, effectively enhancing the retrieval efficiency in the field of medical images.

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