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In this paper, in order to archive this goal, a multidimensional indexing technique for medical images is designed using the normalization technique that is used to reduce redundancy in relational database design. Data structure of the proposed multidimensional index and also different required operations are designed to create and handle such a multidimensional index. Time complexity of each operation is analyzed and also average memory space required to store any medical image (along with its related metadata) is calculated as the space complexity analysis of the proposed indexing technique. The results show that the proposed indexing technique has a good performance in terms of memory usage, as well as execution time for the usual operations. Moreover, and may be more important, the proposed indexing techniques improves the precision and recall of the information retrieval system (i.e., search engine) which uses this technique for indexing medical images. Besides, a user of such search engine can retrieve medical images which s\/he has specified its attributes is some different aspects (dimensions), e.g., tissue, image modality and format, sickness and trauma, etc. So, the proposed multidimensional indexing techniques can improve effectiveness of a medical image information retrieval system (in terms of precision and recall), while having a proper efficiency (in terms of execution time and memory usage), and can improve the information retrieval process for healthcare search engines.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3233\/ida-205495","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2021,11,2]],"date-time":"2021-11-02T16:06:45Z","timestamp":1635869205000},"page":"1629-1666","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":3,"title":["Multidimensional indexing technique for medical images retrieval"],"prefix":"10.1177","volume":"25","author":[{"given":"Ali Asghar","family":"Safaei","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Saeede","family":"Habibi-Asl","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"179","reference":[{"key":"10.3233\/IDA-205495_ref1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"Y. 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