Optic Nerve Head Segmentation

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 256-264

  Lowell, James ^a   Hunter, Andrew ^a,b   Steel, David ^c   Basu, Ansu ^d   Ryder, Robert ^d   Fletcher, Eric ^e   Kennedy, Lee ^e  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LINCOLN   (United Kingdom)

^c SUNDERLAND EYE INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

^d CITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SUNDERLAND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Active contours; Deformable models; Diabetic retinopathy; Optic nerve head

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BLOOD VESSELS; DATABASE SYSTEMS; HOUGH TRANSFORMS; MEDICAL IMAGING; NEUROLOGY; OPTIMIZATION; PATIENT MONITORING; VISION;

ACTIVE CONTOURS; DEFORMABLE MODELS; DIABETIC RETINOPATHY; OPTIC NERVE HEAD;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; DIABETIC RETINOPATHY; EVALUATION; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; OPHTHALMOSCOPY; OPTIC DISK; PATHOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; VALIDATION STUDY;

ALGORITHMS; DIABETIC RETINOPATHY; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; OPHTHALMOSCOPY; OPTIC DISK; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 1342303475     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2003.823261     Document Type: Article

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