Detection of Gallbladder Disease Types Using a Feature Engineering-Based Developed CBIR System.

Background/Objectives: Early detection and diagnosis are important when treating gallbladder (GB) diseases. Poorer clinical outcomes and increased patient symptoms may result from any error or delay in diagnosis. Many signs and symptoms, especially those related to GB diseases with similar symptoms, may be unclear. Therefore, highly qualified medical professionals should interpret and understand ultrasound images. Considering that diagnosis via ultrasound imaging can be time- and labor-consuming, it may be challenging to finance and benefit from this service in remote locations. Methods: Today, artificial intelligence (AI) techniques ranging from machine learning (ML) to deep learning (DL), especially in large datasets, can help analysts using Content-Based Image Retrieval (CBIR) systems with the early diagnosis, treatment, and recognition of diseases, and then provide effective methods for a medical diagnosis. Results: The developed model is compared with two different textural and six different Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) models accepted in the literature-the developed model combines features obtained from three different pre-trained architectures for feature extraction. The cosine method was preferred as the similarity measurement metric. Conclusions: Our proposed CBIR model achieved successful results from six other different models. The AP value obtained in the proposed model is 0.94. This value shows that our CBIR-based model can be used to detect GB diseases.