Analysis of retinal vasculature using a multiresolution hermite model

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 137-152

  Wang, Li ^a,b   Bhalerao, Abhir ^a,b   Wilson, Roland ^b  

^a IEEE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Akaike information criteria (AIC); Expectation maximization (EM); Hermite modeling; Kruskal M spanning tree; Retinal images; Stochastic linking algorithm

Indexed keywords

AKAIKE INFORMATION CRITERIA (AIC); EXPECTATION MAXIMIZATION (EM); HERMITE MODELING; KRUSKAL M-SPANNING TREE; RETINAL IMAGES; STOCHASTIC LINKING ALGORITHM;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MEDICAL PROBLEMS; OPTIMIZATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

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

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

EID: 33847637156     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2006.889732     Document Type: Article

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