An active contour model for the automatic detection of the fovea in fluorescein angiographies

Proceedings - International Conference on Pattern Recognition

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 312-315

  Gutierrez J ^a   Epifanio, I ^a   De Ves, E ^a   Ferri, F J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGIOGRAPHY; IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

ACTIVE CONTOUR MODEL; AUTOMATIC DETECTION; FLUORESCEIN ANGIOGRAPHY; FOVEA DETECTIONS; GREEDY ALGORITHMS; INITIAL CONTOUR; LOCAL MINIMUMS; REGION GROWING ALGORITHM;

PATTERN RECOGNITION SYSTEMS;

EID: 0005003837     PISSN: 10514651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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