Image mining refers to a data mining technique where images are used as data. It supports a large field of applications like medical diagnosis, agriculture, industrial work, space research and obviously the educational field. In this paper I would like to explain image mining- introduction, history, image mining process, image mining framework, application, techniques, various extraction mechanisms used in image mining and image retrieval based on semantics. Since image mining is now the most popular technique of retrieving information related to user query. These concepts are used to developing the research process and it gives the best image mining results.