A new tracking system for the robust extraction of retinal vessel structure

Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology - Proceedings

Volumn 26 III, Issue , 2004, Pages 1620-1623

  Grisan, Enrico ^a,b   Pesce, Alessandro ^a   Giani, Alfredo ^a   Foracchia, Marco ^a   Ruggeri, Alfredo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bifurcations; Crossings; Fundus imaging; Fuzzy clustering; Retina; Tracking; Vessel tracking

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BIFURCATION (MATHEMATICS); COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; PROBLEM SOLVING;

FUNDUS IMAGING; FUZZY CLUSTERING; RETINA; TRACKING; VESSEL TRACKING;

ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS);

EID: 11144342296     PISSN: 05891019     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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