Node-matching-based pattern recognition method for retinal blood vessel images

Optical Engineering

Volumn 42, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 3302-3306

  Lin, Tusheng ^a   Zheng, Yibin ^b  

^a SOUTH CHINA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b University of Virginia   (United States)

Author keywords

Biological characteristic; Node matching; Pattern recognition; Retinal blood vessel imaging

Indexed keywords

NODE MATCHING; POINT PATTERN MATCHING;

ALGORITHMS; BIOLOGICAL RADIATION EFFECTS; BLOOD VESSELS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; MEDICAL IMAGING; TOPOLOGY; VECTORS;

PATTERN RECOGNITION;

EID: 0346433683     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.1613278     Document Type: Conference Paper

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