Adaptive local thresholding by verification-based multithreshold probing with application to vessel detection in retinal images

IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 131-137

  Jiang, Xiaoyi ^a   Mojon, Daniel ^b  

^a TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b CANTONAL HOSPITAL ST GALLEN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Adaptive local thresholding; Hypotheses generation and verification; Medical imaging; Retinal imaging; Threshold probing; Vessel segmentation

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER AIDED ANALYSIS; MEDICAL IMAGING;

THRESHOLD PROBING;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 0037252215     PISSN: 01628828     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPAMI.2003.1159954     Document Type: Article

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