In this chapter we discuss how to take advantage of association rule mining to promote feature selection from low-level image
features. Feature selection can significantly improve the precision of content-based queries in image databases by removing
noisy and redundant features. A new algorithm named StARMiner is presented. StARMiner aims at finding association rules relating
low-level image features to high-level knowledge about the images. Such rules are employed to select the most relevant features.
We present a case study in order to highlight how the proposed algorithm performs in different situations, regarding its ability
to select the most relevant features that properly distinguish the images. We compare the StARMiner algorithm with other well-known
feature selection algorithms, showing that StARMiner reaches higher precision rates. The results obtained corroborate the
assumption that association rule mining can effectively support dimensionality reduction in image databases.