A novel method for the automatic evaluation of retinal vessel tortuosity

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

Volumn 1, Issue , 2003, Pages 866-869

  Grisan, Enrico ^a   Foracchia, Marco ^a   Ruggeri, Alfredo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Curvature; Fundus imaging; Retina; Tortuosity; Vessels

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CELLS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS;

CURVATURE; FUNDUS IMAGING; RETINA; TORTUOSITY; VESSELS;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 1542272401     PISSN: 05891019     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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