A divide et impera strategy for automatic classification of retinal vessels into arteries and veins

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

Volumn 1, Issue , 2003, Pages 890-893

  Grisan, Enrico ^a   Ruggeri, Alfredo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Arteries; Classification; Clustering; Fundus imaging; Retinal vessels; Veins

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BLOOD VESSELS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; PATHOLOGY; PROBLEM SOLVING; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS);

ARTERIES; FUNDUS IMAGING; RETINAL VESSELS; VEINS;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 1542302490     PISSN: 05891019     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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