Section I -- Chapter I. Genetic algorithms and other approaches in image feature extraction and representation / Danilo Avola, Fernando Ferri, Patrizia Grifoni -- Chapter II. Improving image retrieval by clustering / Dany Gebara, Reda Alhajj -- Chapter III. Review on texture feature extraction and description methods in content-based medical image retrieval / Gang Zhang, Z. M. Ma, Li Yan, Ji-feng Zhu -- Chapter IV. Content-based image classification and retrieval: a rule-based system using rough sets framework / Jafar M. Ali --

Section II -- Chapter V. Content based image retrieval using active-nets / David García Pérez, Antonio Mosquera, Stefano Berretti, Alberto Del Bimbo -- Chapter VI. Content-based image retrieval: from the object detection/recognition point of view / Ming Zhang, Reda Alhajj -- Chapter VII. Making image retrieval and classification more accurate using time series and learned constraints / Chotirat "Ann" Ratanamahatana, Eamonn Keogh, Vit Niennattrakul -- Chapter VIII. A machine learning-based model for content-based image retrieval / Hakim Hacid, Abdelkader Djamel Zighed --

Section III -- Chapter IX. Solving the small and asymmetric sampling problem in the context of image retrieval / Ruofei Zhang, Zhongfei (Mark) Zhang -- Chapter X. Content analysis from user's relevance feedback for content-based image retrieval / Chia-Hung Wei, Chang-Tsun Li -- Chapter XI. Preference extraction in image retrieval / Pawel Rotter, Andrzej M.J. Skulimowski -- Chapter XII. Personalized content-based image retrieval / Iker Gondra --

Section IV -- Chapter XIII. A semantics sensitive framework of organization and retrieval for multimedia databases / Zhiping Shi, Qingyong Li, Qing He, Zhongzhi Shi -- Chapter XIV. Content-based retrieval for mammograms / Chia-Hung Wei, Chang-Tsun Li, Yue Li -- Chapter XV. Event detection, query, and retrieval for video surveillance / Ying-li Tian, Arun Hampapur, Lisa Brown, Rogerio Feris, Max Lu, Andrew Senior, Chiao-fe Shu, Yun Zhai -- Chapter XVI. MMIR: an advanced content-based image retrieval system using a hierarchical learning framework / Min Chen, Shu-Ching Chen -- Compilation of references -- About the contributors -- Index.