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We proposed an image retrieval algorithm that deals with multi-instance query with heterogeneous features. For the pre-processing, we utilized the gray-level morphological operations by reconstruction to effectively identify the foreground objects in images. This method can be processed by the pipeline architecture which is suitable for dealing with volume images. The retrieval process is carried...