Integrated analysis of vascular and nonvascular changes from color retinal fundus image sequences

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 54, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 1436-1445

  Narasimha Iyer, Harihar ^a   Can, Ali ^b   Roysam, Badrinath ^c   Tanenbaum, Howard L ^d   Majerovics, Anna ^d  

^a CARL ZEISS SMT AG   (Germany)

^b GE GLOBAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^c RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d Center for Sight   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian classification; Change analysis; Change detection; Diabetic retinopathy; Illumination correction; Retinal image analysis

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN CLASSIFICATION; CHANGE ANALYSIS; CHANGE DETECTION; DIABETIC RETINOPATHY; ILLUMINATION CORRECTION; RETINAL IMAGE ANALYSIS;

ALGORITHMS; BAYESIAN NETWORKS; COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

IMAGE ANALYSIS;

ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; BAYES THEOREM; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DISEASE COURSE; DUST; EYE FUNDUS; ILLUMINATION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGING SYSTEM; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; OPTIC TRACT; RETINA BLOOD VESSEL; RETINA IMAGE; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COLORIMETRY; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETINAL VESSELS; RETINOSCOPY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SUBTRACTION TECHNIQUE; SYSTEMS INTEGRATION;

EID: 34447525304     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2007.900807     Document Type: Article

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