Retinal vessel centerline extraction using multiscale matched filters, confidence and edge measures

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 25, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 1531-1546

  Sofka, Michal ^a,b   Stewart, Charles V ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Likelihood ratio; Matched filters; Retina images; Vessel extraction; Vessel tracing

Indexed keywords

LIKELIHOOD RATIO; MATCHED FILTERS; RETINA IMAGES; VESSEL EXTRACTION; VESSEL TRACING;

ALGORITHMS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; MEDICAL IMAGING; OPTICAL FILTERS; VECTORS;

BLOOD VESSELS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; EVALUATION; FLUORESCENCE ANGIOGRAPHY; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; RETINA BLOOD VESSEL; RETINOSCOPY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; FLUORESCEIN ANGIOGRAPHY; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETINAL VESSELS; RETINOSCOPY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 33845584832     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2006.884190     Document Type: Conference Paper

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