Texton-based segmentation of retinal vessels

Journal of the Optical Society of America A: Optics and Image Science, and Vision

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1384-1393

  Adjeroh, Donald A ^a   Kandaswamy, Umasankar ^a   Odom, J Vernon ^a  

^a WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; BLOOD VESSELS; PHOTOMETRY; VISION;

FUNDUS IMAGING TECHNOLOGY; RETINAL IMAGES; RETINAL VESSEL SEGMENTATION; STATISTICAL LEARNING APPROACH;

OPHTHALMOLOGY;

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

ALGORITHMS; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETINAL VESSELS; RETINOSCOPY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 34249714254     PISSN: 10847529     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAA.24.001384     Document Type: Article

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