Retinal vascular tree morphology: A semi-automatic quantification

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 49, Issue 8, 2002, Pages 912-917

  Martinez Perez, M Elena ^a   Hughes, Alun D ^b   Stanton, Alice V ^b   Thom, Simon A ^b   Chapman, Neil ^b   Bharath, Anil A ^c   Parker, Kim H ^c  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^b ST MARY S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Image analysis; Ophthalmology; Retinal imaging; Vascular geometry; Vascular topology; Vascular tree morphology

Indexed keywords

GEOMETRY; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MEDICAL IMAGING; MORPHOLOGY; TOPOLOGY;

BINARY IMAGES;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING;

ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL DIAMETER; EYE FUNDUS; GEOMETRY; HYPERTENSION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RETINA BLOOD VESSEL;

ADULT; ALGORITHMS; FEMALE; FLUORESCEIN ANGIOGRAPHY; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; PILOT PROJECTS; RETINAL VESSELS;

EID: 0036077163     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2002.800789     Document Type: Article

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