Extraction of blood vessels in ophthalmic color images of human retinas

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 4225 LNCS, Issue , 2006, Pages 118-126

  Felipe Riveron, Edgardo ^a   Garcia Guimeras, Noel ^b  

^a INSTITUTO POLITÉCNICO NACIONAL   (Mexico)

^b Latin American School of Medicine   (Cuba)

Author keywords

Blood vessels segmentation; Fundus analysis; Morphology

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BLOOD VESSELS; COLOR IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MEDICAL IMAGING; OPHTHALMOLOGY;

BLOOD VESSELS SEGMENTATION; FUNDUS ANALYSIS; MORPHOLOGICAL THINNING; MORPHOLOGY OPERATORS;

FEATURE EXTRACTION;

EID: 33845225457     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/11892755_12     Document Type: Conference Paper

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