Ridge-based vessel segmentation in color images of the retina

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 501-509

  Staal, Joes ^a   Abràmoff, Michael D ^b   Niemeijer, Meindert ^a   Viergever, Max A ^a   Van Ginneken, Bram ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

Classification; Convex sets; Feature selection; Fundus; Image primitives; Retina; Ridges; Vessel segmentation

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BLOOD VESSELS; COMPUTER AIDED ANALYSIS; DATABASE SYSTEMS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; OPHTHALMOLOGY; VECTORS;

CONVEX SET; DIABETIC RETINOPATHY; FEATURE SELECTION; FUNDUS IMAGES; IMAGE PRIMITIVES; IMAGE RIDGES; RETINA; RIDGE BASED VESSEL SEGMENTATION;

COLOR IMAGE PROCESSING;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COLOR; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; DIABETIC RETINOPATHY; EVALUATION; EXPERT SYSTEM; FACTUAL DATABASE; FLUORESCENCE ANGIOGRAPHY; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; OPHTHALMOSCOPY; PATHOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; RETINA; RETINA BLOOD VESSEL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VALIDATION STUDY;

ALGORITHMS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COLOR; DATABASES, FACTUAL; DIABETIC RETINOPATHY; EXPERT SYSTEMS; FLUORESCEIN ANGIOGRAPHY; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; OPHTHALMOSCOPY; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETINA; RETINAL VESSELS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 1942454910     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2004.825627     Document Type: Article

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