A multiscale approach to retinal vessel segmentation using gabor filters and scale multiplication

Conference Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics

Volumn 4, Issue , 2006, Pages 3521-3527

  Li, Qin ^b   You, Jane ^a,b   Zhang, Lei ^a,b   Bhattacharya, Prabir ^a,c  

^a IEEE   (Canada)

^b HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

^c Concordia University ^*  (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS; DISEASES; IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

ADAPTIVE THRESHOLDING; GABOR FILTERS; RETINAL VESSELS; SCALE MULTIPLICATION;

BLOOD VESSELS;

EID: 34548139364     PISSN: 1062922X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICSMC.2006.384665     Document Type: Conference Paper

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