Blood vessel segmentation using moving-window Robust Automatic Threshold Selection

IEEE International Conference on Image Processing

Volumn 2, Issue , 2003, Pages 1093-1096

  Wilkinson, Michael H F ^a   Wijbenga, Tsjipke ^a   De Vries, Gijs ^a   Westenberg, Michel A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

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Indexed keywords

ANGIOGRAPHY; BLOOD VESSELS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COST EFFECTIVENESS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

NOISE-FREE IMAGES; THRESHOLDING;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 0345549617     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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