Automated optic disk boundary detection by modified active contour model

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 473-482

  Xu, Juan ^a   Chutatape, Opas ^b   Chew, Paul ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b RANGSIT UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

^c NATIONAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Boundary detection; Deformable model; Fundus image; Optic disk; Snake

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BLOOD VESSELS; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PIXELS;

ACTIVE CONTOUR MODEL; ACTIVE SHAPE MODELS (ASM); BOUNDARY DETECTION; CONTOUR POINTS; DEFORMABLE MODEL; FUNDUS IMAGE; OPTIC DISK; SNAKE;

IMAGE ANALYSIS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; BLOOD VESSEL OCCLUSION; EYE FUNDUS; OPTIC DISK;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COLOR; COLORIMETRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; OPHTHALMOSCOPY; OPTIC DISK; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; PHOTOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 33847723421     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2006.888831     Document Type: Article

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