A reliability study of fractal analysis of the skeletonised vascular network using the "box-counting" technique

Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 4445-4448

  MacGillivray, T J ^a   Patton, N ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b PRINCESS ALEXANDRA EYE PAVILION   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; EYE MOVEMENTS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MEDICAL PROBLEMS;

BINARY VASCULAR NETWORKS; COMPUTERIZED PROCESSING; FRACTAL ANALYSIS; SKELETONIZATION ALGORITHMS;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER; COMPUTER PROGRAM; FRACTAL ANALYSIS; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; OBSERVER VARIATION; PATHOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; RETINA; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTERS; FRACTALS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; OBSERVER VARIATION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETINA; SOFTWARE;

EID: 34047116908     PISSN: 05891019     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IEMBS.2006.260821     Document Type: Conference Paper

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