Systems and methods for barcode annotations for digital images

A method for identifying at least one similar medical image for a query medical image comprising operating a processor to:

• select one or more regions of interest from a set of regions of interest identified for selection;
• and
• generate one or more query image representations for the one or more regions of interest to represent the query medical image, wherein generating the one or more query image representations comprises:
• applying a transform to at least one portion of the query medical image to extract a subset of image data and to generate a plurality of image transform values based on the extracted subset of image data;
• thresholding the plurality of image transform values to generate a plurality of compact image transform values, the plurality of compact image transform values corresponding to the plurality of image transform values having a reduced range of values;
• generating the one or more query image representations based on the plurality of compact image transform values to represent the query medical image;
• determine a degree of similarity between at least one comparison image representation and each query image representation;
• and
• identify the at least one similar medical image for the query medical image by identifying a comparison medical image indexed with the comparison image representation determined to be associated with a highest degree of similarity to the query image representation.

A system for identifying at least one similar image for a query image, the system comprising a processor operable to:

• select one or more regions of interest from a set of regions of interest identified for selection;
• and
• generate one or more query image representations for the one or more regions of interest to represent the query image, wherein generating the one or more query image representations comprises:
• applying a transform to at least one portion of the query image to extract a subset of image data and to generate a plurality of image transform values based on the extracted subset of image data;
• thresholding the plurality of image transform values to generate a plurality of compact image transform values, the plurality of compact image transform values corresponding to the plurality of image transform values having a reduced range of values;
• generating the one or more query image representations based on the plurality of compact image transform values to represent the query image;
• determine a degree of similarity between at least one comparison image representation and each query image representation;
• and
• identify the at least one similar image for the query image by identifying a comparison image indexed with the comparison image representation determined to be associated with a highest degree of similarity to the query image representation.