A model based method for retinal blood vessel detection

Computers in Biology and Medicine

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 209-219

  Vermeer, K A ^a,b   Vos, F M ^a,c   Lemij, H G ^b   Vossepoel, A M ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b ROTTERDAM EYE HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

^c ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Blood vessel detection; Laplace; Retinal nerve fiber layer; Scanning laser polarimetry; Specular reflection; Thresholding

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MEDICAL IMAGING; OPTIMIZATION; PERFORMANCE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; OPHTHALMOLOGY;

BLOOD VESSEL DETECTION; RETINAL IMAGES;

BLOOD; BLOOD VESSELS;

ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA BLOOD VESSEL; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; MODEL; PERFORMANCE;

BLOOD VESSEL DETECTION; RETINAL IMAGES;

ALGORITHMS; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; RETINAL VESSELS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 1642287992     PISSN: 00104825     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0010-4825(03)00055-6     Document Type: Article

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