Registration and fusion of retinal images - An evaluation study

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 661-673

  Laliberté, France ^a,b   Gagnon, Langis ^a   Sheng, Yunlong ^b  

^a Cent de Recherche Informatique de Montreal   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Image fusion; Image registration; Medical imaging; Ophthalmology

Indexed keywords

ANGIOGRAPHY; CONFORMAL MAPPING; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; OPHTHALMOLOGY;

GLOBAL POINT MAPPING; IMAGE FUSION; IMAGE REGISTRATION; RETINAL IMAGES;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHM; ANGIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; EVALUATION; FLUORESCENCE ANGIOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE SUBTRACTION; METHODOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; RETINA DISEASE; VALIDATION STUDY;

ALGORITHMS; ANGIOGRAPHY; FLUORESCEIN ANGIOGRAPHY; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RETINAL DISEASES; SUBTRACTION TECHNIQUE;

EID: 0038444343     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2003.812263     Document Type: Article

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